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The last name E. is of Castilian origin. Its initial form is Escobar, but those rooted in Portugal are written by Escobar, the two forms being used interchangeably within the same family. It comes from the mountains of León, from where it spread throughout the Peninsula. We have its initial strain in Don. Rodrigo Escobar, a child of Castile, married to Dª Blanca Coronel, daughter of a Portuguese named Joao Coronel, lord of Ponferrada, the son of both was Alvaro Rodríguez de Escobar who happened to his parents in the solar house, he married a Portuguese Princess Dª Joana, after time, the two died tragically, in the town of Santarém, leaving five children, who continued the family saga extending their illustrious lineage through lands of Europe and America. Another family branch Don Rodrigo de E., Galician gentleman, accompanied his uncle Don Francisco de Roxan and E., when he, with the powers of the Catholic Monarchs, went to deal with the Emperor Maximilian about the weddings of the Princes Don Juan and Doña Juana with the children of the Austrian Monarch. When his uncle went to Rome, as Ambassador near the Pope, Rodrigo stayed in Flanders, serving the Kings in the wars of those Provinces and reaching the rank of Captain of Horses. Married to Doña Ana Siorque, he had a son, Roberto Martínez de E., who also served in Flanders, as an Infantry Captain in the Tercio of Colonel Mondragón and married Doña Catalina Clerque, from Brabant County. Nicolás Martínez de E., who was an orphan from the age of three, was born from this link, leaving that country very young, visiting Gran Canaria where he settled definitively. He was Perpetual Regidor and General Depository for His Majesty, Captain of his Militias and General Treasurer of the Crusade. He married