Sancho Panza is a fictional character in a novel written by Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
 When the novel begins, Sancho has been married for a long time to a woman named Teresa Cascajo and has a daughter, Mara Sancha (also named Marisancha, Marica, Mara, Sancha, and Sanchica), who is said to be old enough to be married
Cervantes was rediscovered by English writers in the mid-18th century

