The Genealogy of Hernando Cortes
and the Pignatelli Cortes Line

Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca

Don Hernando Cortes
Parents: Martin Cortes de Monroy and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano
Paternal Grandparents: Rodrigo Fernandez de Monroy and Maria Cortes
Maternal Grandparents:
Diego Altamirano and Leonor Sanchez Pizarro Altamirano
Paternal Great Grandparents: Rodrigo de Monroy, Mencia de Orellana y Carvajal
Diego de la Cueva, Maria Cortes
Maternal Great Grandparents: Juan Altamirano, Maria de Vivero
Martin Pizarro de Hinojosa, Isabel Rodriquez Altamirano
Paternal Great Great Grandparents (parents of Mencia de Orellana y Carvajal):
Hernando Alfonso de Orellana, Juana Gonzalez de Carvajal
Maternal Great Great Grandparents (parents of Martin Pizarro de Hinojosa):
Hernando Alonso de Hinojosa, Teresa Martinez Pizarro
Maternal Great Great Grandparents (parents of Isabel Rodriguez Altamirano):
Benito Hernandez Altamirano, Isabel Rodriguez de Aguilar

Natural children of Don Hernando Cortes:
1. Martin Cortes - son of dona Marina (Malinche)
2. Luis - son of dona Antonia Hermosillo
3. dona Catalina Pizarro - daughter of Leonor Pizarro
4. dona Leonor - oldest legitimate daughter of Montezuma,
Emperor of Mexico
5. dona Maria - daughter of a Mexica (Aztec) princess.

Don Hernando Cortes received the title of Marquis of the Valley of
Oaxaca in 1529 and died on December 2nd 1547.

Here is his line of
Succession :

Marriage 1 - In Cuba to Catalina Xuarez Marcaida, Children: none
Died 1522 in Coyoacan.

Marriage 2 - In 1529 to dona Juana Ramirez de Arellano de Zuniga,
daughter of don Carlos Ramirez de Arellano, second Count
of Aguilar and the Countess dona Juana de Zuniga.
Children:
1. Luis - died a child in 1530 in Texcoco.
2. Catalina - died a short time after birth in 1531.
3. Martin - 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, born in Cuernavaca
in 1532.
4. Maria - married don Luis de Quinones, Count of Luna.
5. Catalina - died unmarried in Sevilla after the funeral of her father.
6. Juana - married the duke Don Fernando Enriquez de Ribera and was
given the title duchess of Alcala and Marquesa of Tarifa.
They had 3 daughters born in Cuernavaca between 1533 and 1536.

Don Martin Cortes, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca
Marriage 1 - dona Ana Ramirez de Arellano (his niece)

1. Don Fernando Cortes Ramirez de Arellano - 3rd Marquis of the Valley of
Oaxaca. Left no heirs. Title passes to his brother.
2. Don Pedro Cortes Ramirez de Arellano - 4th Marquis of the Valley of
Oaxaca. Married dona Ana Pacheco de la Cerda. Died in Mexico in
1629 and left no heirs. Title passes to his sister and is
thereafter ruled from Spain and Italy instead of Mexico.
3. dona Juana Cortes Ramirez de Arellano - 5th Marquesa of the Valley of
Oaxaca. Died in 1628. Married don Pedro Carrillo de Mendoza.
Daughter:

Dona Estefania Carrillo de Mendoza y Cortes - 6th Marquesa of the Valley
of Oaxaca. Died in 1635.

Marriage - don Diego de Aragon, Duke of Terranova.
Daughter:

Dona Juana de Aragon Carrillo de Mendoza y Cortes, 7th Marquesa of the
Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1653.

Marriage - don Hector Pignatelli, Duke of Monteleone.
Only son:

Don Andres Fabricio Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of
Terranova, 8th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca.

Marriage - dona Teresa Pimentel y Benavides.
Daughter:

Dona Juana Pignatelli de Aragon, Duchess of Monteleone and of Terranova,
9th Marquesa of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1725.
Marriage - Nicolas Pignatelli.
Son (su hijo primogenito):

Don Diego Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of Terranova,
10th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1750.
Marriage - dona Margarita Pignatelli.
Son:

Don Andres Fabricio de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of Terranova,
11th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1765.
Marriage - dona Constanza Medici.
Son:

Don Hector Maria Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of
Terranova, 12th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1800.
Marriage - dona Anna Maria Piccolomini, of the dukes of Amalfi.
Son:

Don Diego Maria Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of
Terranova, 13th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1818.
Marriage - dona Maria del Carmen Caracciolo.
Heir was his second son:

Don Jose Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of
Terranova, 14th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1859.
Marriage - dona Blanca Lucchesi Palli.
Son:

Don Diego Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of Terranova,
15th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Died in 1880.
Marriage - Julia Cattanes.
Left no heir, title passes to his brother:

Don Antonio Pignatelli de Aragon, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of Terranova,
16th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Born 1827. Died in 1881.
Marriage - dona Mariana Fardella.
Son:

Don Giuseppe Tagliavia Aragona-Pignatelli-Cortes, Duke of Monteleone,
Duke of Terranova, 17th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Born in
Palermo 1860. Died in 1938.
Marriage - dona Rosa de la Gandara , in 1889.

Son:

Antonio Aragona-Pignatelli-Cortes, Duke of Monteleone, Duke of
Terranova, 18th Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. Born in Naples
1892. died 1970
Marriage - Beatrice Molyneaux of New Orleans, Louisiana USA
in 1931.

one son and (one daughter Maria Gloria):

Giuseppe Aragona Tagliavia Pignatelli Cortes
Duke of Monteleone ,Duke of Terranova .
Born in Mexico , in 1931 . Died in Rome in 1984
Marriage –Maria Giulia Gallarati , in 1959.

No issues

The title passes to the heirs of :

The brother of Giuseppe (1860-1938) : Federico Aragona Pignatelli Cortes
Born in Palermo in 1864 , died in Naples in 1955

Marriage:
1) Eleanora Lanza of the Princes of Trabia and Scalea in 1884.
2) Isabella Mastrilli of the Dukes of Marigliano in 1890

had two sons (and two daughters)

A)-(Fra’) Marzio Aragona Pignatelli Cortes
Born in Naples in 1892 , died in Naples in 1978.

No issues

B)- Fabrizio Aragona Pignatelli Cortes
Born in Naples in 1897 , died in Rome 1953.

Marriage :
Maria Cristina of the Counts Rignon , in 1920

had two sons (and one daughter):
Carlo (1921-1933)
Giovanna (1933-2000)

Nicolo’ Pignatelli Aragona Cortes
Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
19th Duke of Terranova , 17th Prince of Noja , 17th Prince of Castelvetrano
“(20th Marquis of Valle Oaxaca)” * etc..
Born in Naples in 1923

Marriage :
1 - Luciana Malgeri (in 1954 an. 1968) had two sons: Fabrizia (1956) and Diego (1956)

2 - Mary Susan Morton in 1969 had two sons: Ascanio (1970) and Adriano (1972)

had three sons and (one daughter)

* It was reported that the title of Marques of Valle Oaxaca was arbitrarily tranferred by Antonio (1892-1970)
to a Spanish family in the 1930s. The descendance from Hernan Cortes remains unchanged in the Pignatelli family."