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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