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3 years, 1 month ago about Hernan Cortes

What family did he leave behind after his death?

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Natural children of Hernán Cortés:

- don Martín Cortés, son of doña Marina (La Malinche), called the First Mestizo; about him was written The New World of Martín Cortés; married doña Bernaldina de Porras and had two children: doña Ana Cortés and don Fernando Cortés, Principal Judge of Veracruz. Descendants of this line are alive today in Mexico.
- Martín - the legitimate son of Cortés and Catalina Juárez Marcaida
- don Luis, son of doña Antonia Hermosillo
- doña Catalina Pizarro, daughter of his relative doña Leonor Pizarro
- doña Leonor, daughter of doña Isabel de Moctezuma, the oldest legitimate daughter of Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin
- doña María Cortés de Moctezuma, married to don Juan de Tolosa, a miner, daughter of Mexica (Aztec) princess Tecuichpotzin Xocoyotzin, born in Tenochtitlan on July 11, 1510 and died on July 9, 1550, daughter of Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin and wife doña María Miahuaxuchitl

He married twice: firstly in Cuba to Catalina Juárez Marcaida, who died at Coyoacán in 1522, without issue, and secondly in 1529 to doña Juana Ramírez de Arellano de Zúñiga, daughter of don Carlos Ramírez de Arellano, 2nd Count of Aguilar and wife the Countess doña Juana de Zúñiga, and had:
- don Luis Cortés y Ramírez de Arellano, who died a child in Texcoco in 1530
- doña Catalina Cortés de Zúñiga, who died a short time after birth in 1531
- don Martín Cortés y Ramírez de Arellano, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, born in Cuernavaca in 1532, married at Nalda on February 24, 1548 his twice cousin once removed doña Ana Ramírez de Arellano y Ramírez de Arellano and had issue, currently extinct in male line
- doña María Cortés de Zúñiga, born between 1533 and 1536, married to don Luis de Quiñones y Pimentel, 5th Count of Luna
- doña Catalina Cortés de Zúñiga, born between 1533 and 1536, died unmarried in Sevilla after the funeral of her father
- doña Juana Cortés de Zúñiga, born between 1533 and 1536, married Don Fernando Enríquez de Ribera y Portocarrero, 2nd Duke of Alcalá de los Gazules, 3rd Marquess of Tarifa and 6th Count of Los Molares, and had issue

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