Margarita Fortalejo-Cervantes

Margarita Cervantes is the only daughter of Don Leon Fortalejo. She was the only child of the Fortalejo patriarch to grow up and stay in the ancestral home. She married Josef Cervantes as per arranged by Leon Fortalejo.

Margarita is also the mother of Nathaniel Cervantes of Ang Sisiw at Ang Agila (The Chick and The Eagle), the second book of the Kristine Series. Aside from being an arrange marriage, not much is known about the story of Margarita and Josef. It was established however that theirs was a happy albeit loveless marriage.