[Carta ejecutoria de hidalguia
Subtitle: Diego de Aguilar de Velasco].
Contributors: Philip III, King of Spain, 1578-1621.
Published: 1600
Language: spa
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Aguilar de Velasco, Diego de.; Nobility -- Spain -- Burgos (Province); Nobility -- Spain -- Burgos (Province) -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Manuscripts, Spanish.
Notes: Ms.
Supplied title derived from phrases used in the text.
Text begins: Porlagracia de Dios rey de Castilla de Leo[n] de Aragon de las dos Secilias ...; "Don Phelippe," expected to precede the quoted initium, is absent (a lost leaf or cover?).
Incorporated (quoted in full or partly) are texts of earlier documents from 1560 on, notably those pertaining to challenges brought before the royal court at Valladolid by the communities of Penãranda and Santo Domingo de Silos against the claims of Tomas de Aguilar and of his son Diego (for whom the present document was issued) to nobility, with the ensuing fiscal relief.
On last page, autograph signatures of hidalgos and royal officials of the Valladolid court.
Written probably at Valladolid.
Parchment partly damaged, with text losses; arranged as one gathering sewn together by a silk cord, originally colored; the final clauses of the document call for a lead seal, apparently now lost.
Decorated with cadelled initials and prominent lines written in various combinations of gold, blue, and red.