Un documento de don Hernando Colón (1536)
ISSN: 1133-7613, 1988-2521
Year of publication: 2015
Issue: 22
Pages: 359-364
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos de historia del derecho
Abstract
At the beginning of 1536 don Ferdinand Columbus, the illegitimate child of the Admiral, appeared before the Council of Military Orders to claim from his brother-in-law�s brother, don García Álvarez of Toledo, commander of Monreal, the million of mrs. that his father, don Fernando Álvarez of Toledo, had promi-sed to his daughter, doña María, as the dowry for her marriage with don Diego Columbus, viceroy of the Indies, step-brother of don Ferdinand. This last had advanced the totality of the dowry to his sister-in-law and was claiming its reimbursement from her brother, because don Ferdinand de Toledo had not cancelled it duly