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LOT 163:
(AMERICAS). D. JUAN ...
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(AMERICAS). D. JUAN SUÁREZ DE CARVAJAL, Bishop of Lugo, of the King's Council, and the officials of the Seville Contract House, order all mercury from the mines in Almadén (province of Ciudad Real) to be exclusively sent to the AMERICAN INDIES for the extraction of silver via the patio process. SINGLE PAGE MANUSCRIPT. 12th May, 1559.
THE CARVAJAL FAMILY:
Juan Suárez de Carvajal (1485-1584) Bishop of Lugo was born to converso parents, Catalina de Carvajal and Pedro Suarez. He served on the Council of the Indies and as an advisor to King Phillip II. His younger brother Illan Suárez de Carvajal was a Spanish conquistador who fought in the wars of Peru.
Members of the Carvajal family succeeded in rising to the pinnacles of power within the church hierarchy in Spain, to the point of contesting the succession to the papacy and overseeing the Inquisitorial investigation and execution of extended family members, including LUIS DE CARVAJAL "The Younger" and most of his immediate family in Mexico City in the 1590’s.
THE PATIO PROCESS:
Developed in Mexico in 1557 for the Pachuca-Real del Monte mines, the patio process was the first method to use mercury amalgamation to recover silver from ore. Due to a shortage of mercury in the Indies, the appointed Advisor to the Council of the Indies, Juan Suárez de Carvajal, here orders all mercury from Almadén to be sent to America for the extraction of silver.
The abundance of silver and the wealth generated through the patio process further motivated colonial expansion and made the Americas a critical player in the global economy. European powers sought to maintain control over regions rich in silver deposits, leading to the colonization and exploitation of vast territories in the Americas. Silver became a vital medium of exchange, and its flow connected the Americas, Europe, and Asia in intricate trade networks.
SCHOLARS COMMENT:
Prof. Roger Louis Martinez-Davila of the University of Colorado and historian of the Carvajal family, was unaware of this manuscript and notes:
"Interestingly, there is a good chance this document is showing the nature of early modern familial networks in a trans-Atlantic context. So, we have Juan Suarez de Carvajal and, a very likely relative (Damian Guiterrez, a witness to the doc) in Spain, and in La Plata, at the same time, we would have the American side of [the] family, founding the city of La Plata (Illan Suarez de Carvajal, 1539), present day Sucre, Bolivia. It all fits together as the family network works to secure Potosi as a silver mining site.”
LITERATURE:
* Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila, From Sword to Seal: The Ascent of the Carvajal Family in Spain (1391-1516): https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/17987.
* Before the Collapse of Coexistence: Catholics Jews Conversos Collaborated in the Bishopric of Plasencia: https://cryptojews.com/before-the-collapse-of-coexistence/.
* Abraham D. Lavender & Dolores Sloan (Eds.) The Secret Jews of Spain, Portugal, and Southern Italy: Past and Present Effects of the Inquisition (2009) p. 101 and on.
* Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila, Creating Conversos: The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain (2018).
* Dr. Ronnie Perelis, The manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal, https://smarthistory.org/luis-de-carvajal-2/.
