1704. Carta de Juan de Saavedra para Juan Roldán, criado.

Letter from Juan de Saavedra to Juan Roldán, a servant.

The author relates Juan Roldán the inquiries he made about Marco Amarita, who is suspected of having got married for a second time in Santa Cruz de Mudela.

In 1704, Marco Amarita was accused of bigamy by the Inquisition Tribunal, because he was suspected of having got married for a second time in Santa Cruz de Mudela. He was married with Leonor de Alarcón, resident in Madrid, whose brother managed to contact Juan Roldán, a servant, who had a sister in Santa Cruz de Mudela, in order to discover if the suspects about the second marriage of Marco Amarita in that town were real. For this reason, Juan Roldán wrote a letter to his brother-in-law, to which the letter here transcribed is the answer. Juan de Saavedra affirmed that Marco Amarita had changed his name to Juan Marco and lived with another woman. Juan Roldán gave the letter to his master, who handed it over to the Inquisition as a proof. However, the lawsuit was suspended, because it could not be proved that Juan Marco and Marco Amarita were the same person.