Gudiel Alfonso Cervatos
1st Señor de Cuerva
(–1376)

Biographical

1st Señor de Cuerva

From early on and continuing through his rise to knighthood, Gudiel steadily amassed both rural and urban property, often acquiring it through judicial auctions linked to debts or the deaths of other knights. His holdings, centred around Toledo, generated income through rents, taxes, and leases—including municipal revenues such as hunting tolls and a share in the Azumel flour mills on the Tagus River. After he was widowed, he received royal permission from Pedro I to marry Constanza González, the widow of his cousin Juan Gudiel, although it is said that the marriage never took place, despite their having a daughter, Sancha. He later formed the Cuerva estate with property donated by his sister María, combining it with his own lands over which he also held jurisdiction granted by Henry II. After his son Sancho died, the estate passed undivided to his daughters and their firstborn sons, who were to carry his name and arms, in keeping with the customs governing hereditary estates.

Place of birth: Toledo
Place of death: Toledo

Son of Gonzalo Alfonso Cervatos and Sancha Díaz, he was married firstly to Sancha Fernández de Villegas [†1345], and had issue (including Sancho, †1375; María Alfonso Cervatos, married to Alfonso Meléndez Fuensalida [†1371]; Urraca; Juana). He was married secondly in c. 1350 to Constanza González (†1370; daughter of Gonzalo Yáñez and Mari Fernández de Saavedra; she had previously been married to his cousin, Juan Gudiel). He also had illegitimate issue by an unknown woman (Juan Gudiel [†<1452], married to Inés Rodríguez Concha, with issue).