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1677. Carta de Quiteria González y Mora para Pedro de Escobedo y Cabrera.

Author(s) Quiteria González y Mora      
Addressee(s) Pedro de Escobedo y Cabrera      
In English

Letter from Quiteria González y Mora to Pedro de Escobedo y Cabrera

The author expresses Pedro de Escobedo her joy for having received his letters, who helped her not to suffer too much for his absence. She also informs him about her daily life in the convent.

In 1682 Alonso de Herrera, chief magistrate of the Royal Chancellery in Granada investigated a case of violation in the convent of Santa Clara, in the village of Martos. The denunciation was issued by the nuns of the convent, and the people accused were Pedro de Escobedo y Cabrera, Knight of the Order of Calatrava and the most important man of Martos, together with Miguel de Ortega y Vallejo and a priest, Juan Salcedo. The three men had had forbidden relationships with three nuns: Quiteria González y Mora, Manuela de Quesada and Ana de Ortega. Private letters from Quiteria González, founded in the house of Pedro, revealed that the relationship between the two was at the origin of the whole scandal. Because of him she had left the house of his parents, and they went away from Martos for some days. When they came back, he left Quiteria in the convent and went to America, where he probably has some kind of official role. During his absence, their correspondence continued. When he came back she was already a professed nun, but this fact did not prevent them to continue their relationship. Moreover, the house of Pedro adjoined the convent, making everything even simpler. Quiteria González tried also to convince another nun, Juana de Santiago, to start a relationship with her lover, but Juana rejected the offer vehemently. The pregnancy of Quiteria González made the scandal even bigger. Another aspect of the scandal was that Pedro had illicitly married Isabel de Ortega, after raping her.

Don Pedro tried to escape justice and he hid in his house. When Alonso de Herrera went to imprison him, Pedro shot and injured de Herrera in the head. The process ended with capital punishment for Pedro, Manuel, Juan Salcedo and other people who had helped them. The sentence declared that Pedro had to be beheaded, his head had to be exposed in the highest tower of Martos and his right hand on the door of the city tobacco shop. The punishment for the nuns was decided by a separate ecclesiastic court, and we do not know anything about the sentence.

Several letters were seized from the house of Pedro de Escobedo. Among them, we can find the love letters sent to Quiteria González. Along with them, there more than 200 letters, which permit us to partially reconstruct other aspects of the life of Pedro de Escobedo, from his family life to his career. Among those letters we can find his correspondence with Juana de Cárdenas, which link this process with another brought to the Royal Council of the Military Orders, for the illicit marriage between Pedro de Escobedo and Isabel María de Ortega. Juana was responsible for the lodging of the girl, and although she should have avoided what happened, it is certain that she played an important role as intermediary.

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alma de toda mi bida dueño adora

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do de mis ojos qrer insynuarte el gus
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to tan grande q este tu coraçon reçibio
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con tus letras es inposible porq fue tan
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sobresaliente q no alle raçones q
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basten a sinificarlo mas tu alma
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mia q sabes lo mucho q te quiero debes
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conoçer q tal seria pues te aseguro con
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toda berdad a fe de tuial q lo soi i lo e de
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ser mientras bibiere y q no e tenido des
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de el dia q faltaste de mi bista mas
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alibio q las beçes q e mereçido tus le
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tras pues todo a sido un continuo pade
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çer sentimientos de tu ausençia pu
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es sin ti q eres mi bida es bibir muri
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endo porq si el perfeto bibir es el te
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ner gusto este me falta porq no te be
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o bien se puede creer sera muerte di
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ta de tus cariños tan de mi gusto como
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pudiste conoçer en lo q alcançaren de
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mi boluntad en fin alma de mis ojos
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no te quiero cansar en deçirte que
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en tantas ocasiones esperimentastes pues por mucho q te esa
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gere los estremos de mi afecto mucho mas pudiste conoçer asi
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no quiero sino descansar con mi coraçon q eres tu i deçirte lo mu
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profesion pues podia anegarme con las muchas q derrame
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porq despues de aberse cunplido el año estube otros ocho meses

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