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Maarten Janssen, 2014-
Author(s) | Juan Duro |
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Addressee(s) | Hermanos Duro |
In English | Letter from Juan Duro to his brothers. Juan Duro, a resident of Naples, writes to his brothers to ask them to take care of his son, who carried this letter. He apologizes for not having been in touch with the family and, to prove his identity and his son´s, he provides several family details and the properties belonging to the family. In 1677 Andrés Duro, a resident of Madrid, presented himself in Court seeking to prove his filiation as being Juan Duro and Jerónima de Miro´s legitimate child. He claimed the properties his father had left behind in Guadalajara when he was called up for military service in Naples. He presented a letter written by his father in 1675 and addressed to the plaintiff´s uncles to announce them his marriage and introduce them their nephew. In the letter, the author manifests he had endured the family´s absence, however, he remembers he had a claim to certain properties which belonged to his father, Juan Duro el Viejo. Andrés Duro´s litigation was filed against the present owners of the land, who were: Alexa de Anaya, Ana de Auñón, José de Ruimonte, Julián Curcillo, Félix de Pareja, Eugenio de Buenosdías, María de Ayala, Juan Fernández Polo, Domingo del Río, Julián Saiz de Rodrigo and María Muñoz. The plaintiff considered their purchase of the land to be illegitimate, however, he did not fully achieve his porpoise. The judgment found that the claim was not sufficiently proved by Juan Duro and his son. On the contrary, some of the defendants did prove their purchase was legitimate and had a favourable sentence, such was the case of: María de Ayala, Alejo de Ayala and Julián Saiz de Rodrigo. Therefore, there were certain lands that had to be distributed among Juan Duro el Viejo´s heirs (Juan, Pedro, José, Francisco and Isabel), and Andrés Duro obtained only the part that was destined to his father. |
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