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Patronato Real - Reels/DVDs, 1520-1697

 File — Box: 23, DVDs: 50-59

Scope and Contents

From the Series: Royal Patronage - early settlement in the Caribbean, New Spain, and New Mexico.. New Spain - Mexico: Hernando Cortés - loss of ships, reports on treasure, Cortés, letters to King Carlos V; Cortes relations with Diego Velazquez, Panfilo Narvaéz, Nuño de Guzmán, Antonio de Mendoza and other officials in New Spain, Audiencia, viceroys, administration, salaries; Residencia of Cortés, conditions in New Spain, descriptions, conquest era lawsuits, appointments, contracts, actions in Guatemala, Honduras, expedition to South Sea, Pacific, California, counterclaims Pacific, Florida; Cortes - title of Marquez de Valle de Oaxaca, property, Indians; Sons of Cortés - Martin and Luis, burial of Cortés, family in Spain; Pedro de Alvarado and Alvarado family; Luis de Ponce de León, Bernardino de Váquez de Tapia; Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Francisco de Garay, Gonzalo de Salazar; Diego de Ordaz, Antonio de Oquendo, navy, pearls; Antonio de Herrera, historian.

Lists of conquistadores and encomenderos, service records of many Montezuma family, inheritance

Economy, encomiendas, lawsuits, mines, cattle, agriculture, palo hec Women, inheriting encomiendas, cases

Missions, religious, support from the crown, religious orders - conflicts with secular clergy, Durango, Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, books, published, banned

Indians, conditions, treatment, protection, remedies for mistreatment, regulations for encomiendas, tribute, supplies, provisions for Indians, land use and succession by Indians, complaints, views, petitions of Indians to the King, role of caciques, letters of Indians to the King

Nueva Galicia: Nuño de Guzmán, others, Chichimecas, idolatry, wars, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Nueva Galicia, Governor, Antequera, Oaxaca, Pueblo de Los Angeles, Lorenzo Lebrón de Quiñones - descriptions, Nueva Vizcaya, Juan de Ibarra, Nuevo León, Luis de Carvajal, San Luis de Potosí, mines.

Yucatan: Missions, Indians, Bishop Landa, lists of conquistadores of Yucatan

Peru: Fray Diego de Porras, missions

California: Exploration of the South Sea, Juan Rodríguez de Cabrillo, report of Juan de Paéz

Florida: Exploration by Hernando de Soto, counter claims to Pacific and Nueva Galicia

New Mexico: Descriptions, conditions, culture of Indians, geography, environment, Coronado expedition, Cibola, Juan de Jaramillo report, Fray Marcos de Niza, Antonio de Espejo, he named New Mexico, Nueva Andalucia. Francisco Sánchez de Chamuscado, Fray Agustín Rodríguez, Antonio de Humana. Juan de Oñate and other contenders to colonize New Mexico, Viceroys and Oñate, instructions, regulations for selling, killing cattle, matanza, Regulations for founding the colony, treatment of Indians, lists of soldiers, settlers, men bringing cattle to New Mexico, Vicente and Juan de Zaldívar, Montezuma family and Oñate. San Juan Pueblo, San Juan de Los Caballeros, San Gabriel, Santo Domingo Pueblo, headquarters for Spanish activities, Pueblos - culture, leaders, description of, names of villages, Acoma Pueblo - relations with Spanish, rendering obedience, Indian rights, notes on encomiendas, tribute, treatment, Pueblo uprisings, pre-1680, 1643 events, Zuñi Pueblo, Hopis Other governors of New Mexico, problems, policies. New Mexico economy, mines, azogue, salt lakes, springs, trade. Missions, early organizations, personnel, remedies for treatment, protection of Indians, conflicts with New Mexico governors, Bishop of Oaxaca, Juan de Palafox. Governor Luis de Rosa incident, murder, dire conditions, mistreatment of Indians, conflicts with friars.

Dates

  • 1520-1697

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English Spanish French Mayan

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 23 boxes (20.5 cu. ft.) 217 volumes, 107 microfilm reels, 2 boxes DVDs

General

(Microfilm reels not avaliable. Please use DVDs)

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451