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Petition for nobility status initiated by Miguel de Morales and Andrés de Morales of Mexico City

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Open book Petition for nobility status initiated by Miguel de Morales and Andrés de Morales of Mexico City

Title Petition for nobility status initiated by Miguel de Morales and Andrés de Morales of Mexico City

Creator Morales, Miguel de, active 1683-1685

Date 1685

Place Mexico, Mexico--Mexico City

Language Spanish

Subjects Nobility, Heraldry

Summary Petition for nobility status filed by brothers Miguel and Andrés de Morales on their own behalf, and that of their siblings: Josepha de San Miguel, and Nicolás, y Francisco de Morales, all residents of Mexico City. Includes certification of the marriage in 1675 of Miguel de Morales Maldonado (currently alcalde mayor of Tlazasalca), and Josefa de Tovar y Vargas; certified baptismal records of their three children: María Teresa (b. ca. 1677); Juan Antonio (b. 1679), and Francisco (b. 1681); and testimony of six witnesses presented Aug. 21-23, 1685. Description of the Morales lineage reveals that Miguel's father, Nicolás, was the son of one of the early conquistadores, Luis de Morales, who settled in Mexico in 1566 with his wife, Juana de Avila Niño de Guzmán Nine questions to be put to the witnesses are laid out, and testimonies begin Oct. 1685 in Mexico City. Copies of documents granted earlier are transcribed--some from 1538, 1566, 1613, some issued in Spain--as is a history of the exploits of important members of the Morales family, originally from Soria, Spain. There are also testimonies to the services rendered to the king by Miguel de Morales. Final documents dated Dec. 13-14, 1685 in Mexico City.

Extent [5], 8, [1], 68 leaves, bound : colored coat of arms, portrait ; 31 cm (folio)

Format Sources, Illuminated manuscripts, Seals, Woodcuts

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Call Number VAULT folio Case MS 5267

BibID 991801658805867

Projects Tag Spanish Nobility Patents

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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