Calixto Garcia de Luna e Izquierdo was born in Soria, Castilla somewhere around 1768. He went to Valencia, Venezuela where he was a merchant. There he married Maria de los Angeles Gonzalez, said to be the daughter of an Indigenous Chief (Hija de Cacique). They had numerous children, both boys and girls. Garcia de Luna fought on the Spanish side in the Battle of Carabobo, against Bolívar and the English (Irish?) battalion (Legion), in what is now Venezuela in 1821.