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INTRODUCTION.

church of Santa Maria Mayor on the 9th of October, 1547. Of his boyhood and youth we know nothing, unless it be from the glimpse he gives us in the preface to his "Comedies" of himself as a boy looking on with delight while Lope de Rueda and his company set up their rude plank stage in the plaza and acted the rustic farces which he himself afterwards took

                 1Tello Murielliz (Rico Home of Castile, A.D. 988).

Oveco Tellez.

Gonzalo Ovequiz.

Aldefonso Gonzalez.

Munio Aldefonso.

Aldefonso Munio (with Alfonso VI. at Toledo, 1085).

Nuño Alfonso (Alcaide of Toledo, d. 1143).
┌─────────┴───────┐
Pedro │ │
Guttierez=Gimena. Alfonso Munio de Cervatos.
│ ┌─────────┴───────┐
│ Pedro Alfonso Gonzalo de Cervantes (with Ferdinand III.
│ de Cervatos. │ at Seville in 1248).
│ │
Ferdinand of Aragon. Juan Alfonso de Cervantes (Commander of the
│ Order of Calatrava).
┌────┘
Alonso Gomez Tequetiques de Cervantes.

Diego Gomez de Cervantes (first to settle in Andalusia).
┌─────────────────────┴────────────┐
Rui Gomez de Cervantes Gonzalo Gomez de Cervantes.
(Prior of the Order of San Juan). │
┌───────────────────────┬──────────┴───┐ Cardinal Juan de Cervantes Rodrigo Diego Gomez (Prior of the
(Archbishop of Seville, 1453). de Cervantes. de Cervantes Order of
│ San Juan.)
┌──────────────┘
Juan de Cervantes (Veinticuatro of Seville temp. John II.).
└──────┐
Diego de Cervantes = Juana Avellanda,
(Commander of the Order of Santiago). │ d. of Juan Arias de Saavedra.
┌────────────────────────────┴──────────────┐
Juan de Cervantes (Corregidor of Osuna). Gonzalo Gomez de Cervantes
│ (Corregidor of Jerez).
Rodrigo de Cervantes = Leonor de Cortinas.
┌────────────────┴──┬─────────────────┬──────────────────┐
Rodrigo, b. 1543. Andrea, b. 1544. Luisa, b. 1546. Miguel, b. 1547.