Archivo de la familia Ovando
Item
Country
ES
Name of institution (English)
Historical Archive of the Nobility
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
spa
Contact information: postal address
Calle Duque de Lerma 2, 45003 Toledo
Contact information: phone number
0034 925210354
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
nobleza@cultura.gob.es
Reference number
ES.45168.AHNOB//OVANDO
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Archive of the Ovando family
Title (official language of the state)
Archivo de la familia Ovando
Language of title
spa
Creator / accumulator
Ovando family
Date(s)
1377/1941
Language(s)
spa
Extent
102 boxes, and 7 files
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
The Archive of the Ovando family is composed of patrimonial documents from the Aponte, Ulloa and Ovando families. These families were linked to territories and populations of the current provinces of Caceres and Badajoz that had a strong Jewish presence in the 15th century.
The collection preserves the archives or, in some cases, significant documents of the following aristocratic titles (OVANDO,F.1-4): Marquisate of Torreorgaz, Marquisate of Camarena la Real, County of Casa Palma, and Lordship of Torrearias.
The documents are classified in several series according to type:
1) Genealogy, noble titles, and entailed estate (“mayorazgo”).
2) Nobiliary jurisdiction: This series gathers all the documents generated or related to the exercise of nobiliary jurisdiction: granting of lordships or jurisdictional rights and the transfers, agreements, and lawsuits over them; support of the seigniories to the Crown of Castile, especially in military matters; and jurisdiction over vassals in aspects of government, justice, or taxation.
3) Estate: It contains all the documents related to the familial estate and its administration: managing of assets, domain transfers, delimitation, and increase or decrease of patrimony (through dowries, marital capitulations, etc.). It is, together with the section of estate administration, the largest documentary series and occupies a large part of the volume of the collection.
4) Estate administration: This series includes those documents generated or received by the administration of the estate: maintenance and use of properties, estate inventories, accounting and payment of taxes. Documents produced by the archival activity are also included in this series. The documentation, which occupies a huge volume, is organized by manorial administrations with geographical criteria and deals with correspondence between the administrators and the head of general administration, accountability, and expenses. Otherwise, the documentation produced by the general administration itself includes sumptuary and household expenses, in addition to the record books.
5) Private: This series contains the personal files of each of the family members: for example, work-related, academic, and professional documents; non-hereditary appointments and honors, such as decorations, membership in associations and Military Orders, and appointments for offices and positions. Documents produced for familial celebrations and social meetings are included.
6) Staff: tasks performed.
7) Board of pious works (documents related to charitable works and expenses related to religious worship).
8) Collections.
Concerning Jews, the Marquisate of Torreorgaz section contains two letters of the Marquis of Sardoal addressed to the Marquis of Torreorgaz, in which a Jew in the service of the Marquis de Sardoal acts as a messenger between them.
The Marquisate of Camarena la Real section includes one letter of the sale of a vineyard in Fuente del Rey by the priest of Santa Maria de Aliseda y Malpartida to Samuel Cohen (1480). The rental of houses by Jews in Caceres is verified, in particular in the San Juan compound, such as those by Abrahan, son of Alva, and Alfandar, son of Baru (1487).
The Lordship of Torrearias section contains a copy of the last will of Alfon Perez Golfin el Viejo, from Caceres, with a copy of a letter addressed from the Catholic Monarchs to Sancho de Paredes (Golfin) about the collection of assets of the Jews of Plasencia (1512).
The collection preserves the archives or, in some cases, significant documents of the following aristocratic titles (OVANDO,F.1-4): Marquisate of Torreorgaz, Marquisate of Camarena la Real, County of Casa Palma, and Lordship of Torrearias.
The documents are classified in several series according to type:
1) Genealogy, noble titles, and entailed estate (“mayorazgo”).
2) Nobiliary jurisdiction: This series gathers all the documents generated or related to the exercise of nobiliary jurisdiction: granting of lordships or jurisdictional rights and the transfers, agreements, and lawsuits over them; support of the seigniories to the Crown of Castile, especially in military matters; and jurisdiction over vassals in aspects of government, justice, or taxation.
3) Estate: It contains all the documents related to the familial estate and its administration: managing of assets, domain transfers, delimitation, and increase or decrease of patrimony (through dowries, marital capitulations, etc.). It is, together with the section of estate administration, the largest documentary series and occupies a large part of the volume of the collection.
4) Estate administration: This series includes those documents generated or received by the administration of the estate: maintenance and use of properties, estate inventories, accounting and payment of taxes. Documents produced by the archival activity are also included in this series. The documentation, which occupies a huge volume, is organized by manorial administrations with geographical criteria and deals with correspondence between the administrators and the head of general administration, accountability, and expenses. Otherwise, the documentation produced by the general administration itself includes sumptuary and household expenses, in addition to the record books.
5) Private: This series contains the personal files of each of the family members: for example, work-related, academic, and professional documents; non-hereditary appointments and honors, such as decorations, membership in associations and Military Orders, and appointments for offices and positions. Documents produced for familial celebrations and social meetings are included.
6) Staff: tasks performed.
7) Board of pious works (documents related to charitable works and expenses related to religious worship).
8) Collections.
Concerning Jews, the Marquisate of Torreorgaz section contains two letters of the Marquis of Sardoal addressed to the Marquis of Torreorgaz, in which a Jew in the service of the Marquis de Sardoal acts as a messenger between them.
The Marquisate of Camarena la Real section includes one letter of the sale of a vineyard in Fuente del Rey by the priest of Santa Maria de Aliseda y Malpartida to Samuel Cohen (1480). The rental of houses by Jews in Caceres is verified, in particular in the San Juan compound, such as those by Abrahan, son of Alva, and Alfandar, son of Baru (1487).
The Lordship of Torrearias section contains a copy of the last will of Alfon Perez Golfin el Viejo, from Caceres, with a copy of a letter addressed from the Catholic Monarchs to Sancho de Paredes (Golfin) about the collection of assets of the Jews of Plasencia (1512).
Archival history
This collection was acquired and incorporated into the Nobility Section of the National Historical Archive (Historical Archive of the Nobility) in 1999.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Ovando lineage connects with other families located in Extremadura, such as Aponte, Ulloa and Rol. In 1776, Vicente Francisco Ovando y Solis was granted the title of Marquess of Camarena la Real.
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Access points: document types
System of arrangement
This documentary fonds is classified thusly: 81 Ovando, archivo de la familia, 1377-1941; 81.1 Torreorgaz, marquesado de, 1377-1941; 81.2 Camarena la Real, marquesado de, 1401-1814; 81.3 Casa Palma, condado de, 1502-1655; 81.4 Torrearias, señorio de, 1600-1800.
Access, restrictions
Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
Finding aids
Data on the collection are also available at the website of the Spanish National Archives (PARES).
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