1542. Carta de Bartolomé Ponce de Cabrera para el doctor Hernando de Zamora.

Letter from Bartolomé Ponce de Cabrera to doctor Hernando de Zamora.

The author informs Hernando de Zamora of the engagement Alonso Ortiz has arranged for Catalina de Sepúlveda and asks him for help to prevent it.

In 1543 Elvira Martel brought a lawsuit against Alonso Ortiz for the tutoring of her granddaughter, Catalina de Sepúlveda, a minor. The girl was María Martel and Pedro de Sepúlveda´s daughter, however, once her mother passed away she was under her stepfather´s guardianship: Alonso Ortiz. After the latter arranged an engagement for Catalina with a stableman, whose status was far below the girl´s, Elvira Martel claimed the tutorship of her granddaughter. The Court ruled in her favour and forbid the girl from getting married until she was of age.