The bishop seeks payment of 2,000 ducats from sureties for the Count of Ribadavia. The Count is the principal debtor and the bishop the creditor; this is not a debt from the Count to the Méndez family.
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Conde de Ribadavia
Principal debtor for whom Pedro de Bande, Bernal Méndez and Jácome Ruiz acted as sureties. Luis Sarmiento de Castro is a proposed identification: official records name him as Count of Ribadavia in 1567–1568, but the reviewed debt text gives only the title. Those records do not prove that he was this debtor or establish kinship with the sureties.
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Conde de Ribadavia
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Principal debtor for whom Pedro de Bande, Bernal Méndez and Jácome Ruiz acted as sureties. Luis Sarmiento de Castro is a proposed identification: official records name him as Count of Ribadavia in 1567–1568, but the reviewed debt text gives only the title. Those records do not prove that he was this debtor or establish kinship with the sureties.
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Named as a surety for the Count’s debt to the bishop. Co-sureties are not identified as relatives.
Named as a surety for the Count’s debt to the bishop. Co-sureties are not identified as relatives.
Named as a surety for the Count’s debt to the bishop. Co-sureties are not identified as relatives.
Jácome Ruiz is called regidor and the Count’s former mayordomo. The office does not establish ancestry.
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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.