The court text explicitly calls Francisco a son of the deceased Bernal Méndez.
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Bernal Méndez
Deceased father of Francisco and Margarida. Named with Pedro de Bande and Jácome Ruiz as a surety for the Count’s debt to Juan de San Millán, bishop of León. No wife is named here.
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Bernal Méndez
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Deceased father of Francisco and Margarida. Named with Pedro de Bande and Jácome Ruiz as a surety for the Count’s debt to Juan de San Millán, bishop of León. No wife is named here.
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The court text explicitly names Margarida among Bernal Méndez’s children; no mother is supplied.
Fernán Daño represents the deceased Bernal’s estate as curator; no kinship is stated.
Named as a surety for the Count’s debt to the bishop. Co-sureties are not identified as relatives.
The writ is dated May 1569, with the day unread. Its dates belong to proceedings, not Bernal’s life dates.
Record
Bernal Méndez’s children and the Count of Ribadavia’s sureties
ARChV, Registro de Ejecutorias, Caja 1156, 46 · proceedings 1565–1569
Working edition and corrections reviewed against selected original images in a 14-page PDF, including the archival cover and Bernal’s children. The file concerns the bishop’s recovery of a 2,000-ducat debt guaranteed for the Count, not a debt owed by the Count to this family. The writ is dated May 1569, day unread; it copies earlier proceedings. No public catalogue entry has been matched. No mother is named for Francisco or Margarida. Financial parties are not relatives by implication.