The Abravanel family (also spelle as Abarbanel or Abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish families of the Iberian peninsula; they trace their origin from the biblical King David. Members of this family lived in Seville, where its oldest representative, Don Judah Abravanel, dwelt. Samuel Abravanel, his grandson, settled in Valencia, and Samuel's son, Judah (or perhaps himself), left for Portugal. Isaac, the son of Judah, returned to Castile, where he lived until the time of the great expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Then, with his three sons, Judah, Joseph, and Samuel, Isaac went to Italy. Their descendants, as well as other members of the family who arrived later from the Iberian peninsula, lived in the Netherlands, England, Turkey, and elsewhere during and since the sixteenth century.