He was born in El Toboso, the village of Dulcinea in Cervantes’s Don Quixote, within a noble family living there since the XV century, owners of 8,692 hectares.
He was the descendant of major Bartolomé Martínez de la Morena, crossbowmen of Emperor Carlos I, Dr Esteban Martínez-Zarco y Muñoz de Horcajada, rector del Collegio di Spagna (1555-1561) and Bachelor Diego Ortiz-Vivanco de la Plaza y Martínez de la Morena, member of the Order of Santiago.
In 1801 he married his cousin Juana-María Cano Coronado and later, in 1826, he married Basilisa Fernández Carrasco, both with Royal permission.
Between 1820 and 1823 he was appointed trustee of the City Council of El Toboso and local Commander of Arms.
He died in Alcañices in 1848, where he had gone to spend a season with his youngest son, being buried in the parish cemetery.
He was born in El Toboso, the village of Dulcinea in Cervantes’s Don Quixote, within a noble family living there since the XV century, owners of 8,692 hectares. He was the descendant of major Bartolomé Martínez de la Morena, crossbowmen of Emperor Carlos I, Dr Esteban Martínez-Zarco y Muñoz de Horcajada, rector del Collegio di Spagna (1555-1561) and Bachelor Diego Ortiz-Vivanco de la Plaza y Martínez de la Morena, member of the Order of Santiago. In 1801 he married his cousin Juana-María Cano Coronado and later, in 1826, he married Basilisa Fernández Carrasco, both with Royal permission. Between 1820 and 1823 he was appointed trustee of the City Council of El Toboso and local Commander of Arms. He died in Alcañices in 1848, where he had gone to spend a season with his youngest son, being buried in the parish cemetery.
Pablo Muñoz de la Morena