The homeland of one of the most extraordinary literary writers of all time, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, has been the focus of countless literary studies and dissertations, which have called into question the birthplace of the author of ‘He … ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha’. Historiography has opted to assert that he was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547, but a new study asserts that Cervantes was born in Córdoba.
Although it is difficult to determine with certainty the place where the famous author of the Golden agehis relationship and that of his family with the capital of the Mosque seems more than proven.
First of all, he resided in this city, in 1555 and in other times, his grandfather the lawyer Juan de Cervanteswho served as judge of assets confiscated by the Holy Office and served as warden in Cabra, Iznájar and Baena, towns in the dominion of the Duke of Sessa.
Furthermore, according to the study carried out by the priest Alfonso Adamuzfrom Córdoba were also María de Cabrera y Sotomayor, wife of Don Diego Gomez de Cervantes, fourth grandfather of Miguel de Cervante s Saavedra, «apart from the infinity of Cervantes more or less close relatives; among whom we can mention Doña María de Cervantes, sister of Cardinal Don Juan, married to the twenty-fourth of Córdoba Gonzalo de Carrillo; and her niece too, Doña María de Cervantes, daughter of another brother of Cardinal Donjuán, Gonzalo Gómez de Cervantes, married to another twenty-four from Cordoba, Don Martín de Guzmán, and her numerous descendants.
As for the famous writer, he was able to reside in the city for several years of his childhood and there are also studies that estimate that he returned to live in Córdoba between 1599 and 1603. Although the points of his residence in the capital cannot be precisely determined, “it is assumed that the first steps of his childhood would be taken in the house of his grandfather Juan de Cervantes, in the parish collation of Santo Domingowhere we know he lived in the year 1555, and where his son Rodrigo de Cervantes, father of our famous writer, would reside,” Adamuz’s work points out.
Regarding his residence from 1599 to 1603, “he would have it in his grandfather’s house, or in the Cabrera’s landhis illustrious relatives.
Brand ‘Cordoba’
The president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Letters and Noble Arts of Córdoba, Jose Cosanohas stated that the fact that the famous universal writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Córdoba and not in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), as concluded by a new investigation by José de Contreras y Saro, would be “something fundamental” for Córdoba culture, while “increasing the Córdoba brand.”
Cosano has highlighted that, in any case, the writer’s family “unquestionably” is from Córdoba and there are “close to 50 jobs» in the bulletin of the Royal Academy, in charge of studying the history of Córdoba and its province, which «abound in that nature».
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