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Cortés (Castilian, Galician, Valencian), Cortês (), Cortès is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin, respectively. The surname derived from the Old French corteis or curteis, meaning 'courteous' or 'polite', [1] and is related to the English Curtis.
These are the lists of the most common Spanish surnames in Spain, Mexico, Hispanophone Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), and other Latin American countries.
Corte is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cesare Corte (1554–1613), Italian painter of the Renaissance period; Enrico Corte (born 1963), Italian contemporary artist
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
Currently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name (nombre in Spanish) and two surnames (apellidos in Spanish).. A composite given name is composed of two (or more) single names; for example, Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename.
Martín Cortés was born in 1522 in a former Aztec palace in New Spain in what is now Mexico City, Mexico.His father, conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his mother, Malintzin, Cortés's guide, interpreter, and companion, named him Martín after the Roman god of war and Cortés's father.
Cortes, Navarre, a village in the South border of Navarre, Spain; Cortes de Aragón, Teruel, a municipality in the province of Teruel, Aragón, Spain; Cortes, Bohol, a municipality in the Philippines; Cortes, Surigao del Sur, a municipality in the Philippines; Cortês, a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil; Puerto Cortés, a seaport in Honduras
The origins of the Corte-Real family lie in the 14th century, when Vasco Anes da Costa, a Portuguese knight from Tavira, was one of the supporters of the pretensions of John Master of Aviz to the Portuguese throne and after him, his homonym son, who participated on the conquest of Ceuta, being one the first warriors to cross the wall of the moor city.