 Alonso Campofrio immediately began to rise through the ranks of public office, even replacing Catalina's relative, Rodolfo Lisperguer, as mayor.The year after their marriage, Catalina gave birth to her first and only son, Gonzalo, who died when he was 8 or 10 years old.Approximately in 1628, her sister died in Peru, and Catalina became the owner of a large part of the her sister's land in Chile.