Note 64 — Chapter XXXI
Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham translation
These gallant boys deserve more than a passing notice. Young Vargas, son of Gómez de Tordoza, and cousin of Garcilaso de la Vega, was of the noblest blood of Castille. One ancestor rode by the side of St. Ferdinand at the taking of Seville, another sacrificed his life to save his king at Aljubarrota, another defeated the gigantic Moor in the famous duel on the Vega of Granada. The heroic page of Pizarro was worthy of such ancestry.
Cardona sprung from equally heroic stems. He was connected with the Córdovas, Dukes of Sesa, the family of the Gran Capitán.