Gonzalo
Gómez de Cervantes
(c. 1537–>99)
Biographical
Alcalde
mayor of Huejotzingo 1591
Alcalde mayor of Villa de Carrión 1591
Alcalde mayor of Tlaxcala
Alcalde mayor of Tepeaca
Alcalde ordinario of Mexico City 1589, 1594
Aside from his judicial and administrative roles, Gómez de Cervantes was
also involved in mining and grain production in the Americas. He was also
a chronicler. His date of death is not known, but his health deteriorated
by the early 1590s, and he is no longer mentioned after 1599.
Place of birth: Mexico
Son of Juan de Cervantes and Luisa de Lara y Andrada, he married Catalina
de Tapia Carvajal (1574), and had issue.
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