Original sentence: Velázquez was the son of Juan Rodríguez de Silva (born João Rodrigues da Silva), a lawyer whose parents, Diogo da Silva and wife Maria Rodrigues, had emigrated from Portugal, and Jerónima Velázquez, a member of the hidalgo class, an order of minor aristocracy (it was a Spanish custom, in order to maintain a legacy of maternal inheritance, for the eldest male to adopt the name of his mother)
Edited sentence: (it was a Spanish custom, in order to maintain a legacy of maternal inheritance, for the eldest male to adopt the name of his mother).They came from the lesser nobility and were accorded the privileges generally enjoyed by the gentry.Velázquez's paternal grandparents, Diogo da Silva and Maria Rodrigues, had moved to Seville from their native Porto.as for Juan Rodrigues de Silva and his wife, both were born in Seville, and were married, also at he church of St Peter, on 28 december 1597