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Leonel de Cervantes
(c. 1485–1550)


Other names: Leonel de Cervantes Saavedra y Tello

Biographical

Hidalgo
Commander of the Order of Santiago (Spain)

Regidor 1526
Alcalde ordinario of Mexico City 1525, 1526, 1534
Encomendero of Atlapulco
Encomendero of Xalatlaco

Cervantes arrived in Cuba in 1519, and joined Cortés in the following year. He did not participate in the siege of Tenochtitlan as he had returned to Spain to fetch his family. In 1524, he returned to Spain with his family. His children carried the title of don/doña. He was a vecino of Mexico City, and encomendero of Atlapulco and Xalatlaco.

Place of birth: Tarancón, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha

Son of Diego de Cervantes and Guiomar Tello, he married Leonor de Andrada, and had issue.



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