Casa de Contratación - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:34:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Casa de Contratación - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Documents on Juan Sebastián Elcano: will and other instruments relating to his family https://historylab.es/documents-on-juan-sebastian-elcano-will-and-other-instruments-relating-to-his-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=documents-on-juan-sebastian-elcano-will-and-other-instruments-relating-to-his-family Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/documentos-sobre-juan-sebastian-elcano-testamento-y-otros-instrumentos-relativos-a-su-familia/ Documents about Juan Sebastián Elcano, including the sailor's will, as well as some family lawsuits

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]]> Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish sailor who completed the first round-the-world voyage in the Magellan-Elcano expedition, remaining at the head of the expedition after the death of Ferdinand Magellan. A native of the town of Guetaria, Elcano began his circumnavigation on 10 August 1519 and arrived in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on the Nao Victoria on 6 September 1522, after a three-year voyage. This document is contextualised a few years after his return, in 1526, the date on which he wrote his will, which can be consulted.

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]]> Letter from Charles I to Juan Sebastián Elcano https://historylab.es/letter-from-charles-i-to-juan-sebastian-elcano/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-from-charles-i-to-juan-sebastian-elcano Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:30 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/carta-de-carlos-i-a-juan-sebastian-elcano/ Letter written by Charles I to Juan Sebastián Elcano after arriving at Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

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]]> Letter of reply from Charles I to Juan Sebastián Elcano, written on 11 September 1522, after his arrival in Sanlúcar de Barrameda from the Magellan-Elcano expedition. In it, the monarch acknowledges receipt of his letter in which he tells him of his arrival with the ship Victoria and orders him to go, together with two of the expedition’s members – “the most sane and best reasoned” – to meet him. In the letter, Charles I informs him that he has ordered the officers of the Casa de la Contratación to dress them and provide them with what they need, and that they are to make a record of what has happened. He also granted him the quarter and the twenty that belonged to him.

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