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Both brothers founded families The Cervantes branch had more tenacity;

it sent offshoots in various directions, Andalusia, Estreoodly line of uished in the

service of Church and State Gonzalo himself, and apparently a son of

his, followed Ferdinand III in the great caave

Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the

kingdom of Granada, and his descendants intermarried with some of the

noblest fa them soldiers,

at least two

cardinal-archbishops

Of the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, Coo, hter of Juan Arias

de Saavedra, and had several sons, of whoidor of Jerez and ancestor of the Mexican and Columbian branches of

the fao married Dona Leonor de

Cortinas, and by her had four children, Rodrigo, Andrea, Luisa, and

Miguel, our author

The pedigree of Cervantes is not without its bearing on "Don Quixote" A

hts-errant

extending froe of Granada was