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Note on the Life of Francisco de Cárdenas Valencia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Eleanor B. Adams
Eleanor B. Adams*
Affiliation:
Division of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Very little has been known about the life of the seventeenth century Yucatecan historian, Francisco de Cárdenas Valencia, author of the Relación historial eclesiástica de la provincia de Yucatán. He completed this important work on the early colonial history of Yucatan in February, 1639, but although it was known and used by Diego López de Cogolludo and later historians, it remained unpublished for nearly three hundred years. In 1937 it was finally printed in the Biblioteca histórica mexicana de obras inéditas. In his bibliographical note to this edition, Federico Gómez de Orozco tells the history of the manuscript, refuting the erroneous belief that Cárdenas Valencia wrote two works, but he does not give much new data concerning its author.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , July 1945 , pp. 21 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1945

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References

1 Valencia, Francisco de Cárdenas, Relacíon historical ecclesiástica de la provincia de Yucatán de la Nueva España, escrita el año de 1639 (Biblioteca histórica mexicana de obras inéditas, 3, México, 1937).Google Scholar

2 Probanzas del Bachiller Francisco de Cárdenas Valencia, 1633, 1637, Archivo General de Indias, México, leg. 239; Informacíon de los méritos y servicios del Capitán Juan de Cárdenas …, A. G. I., Patronato, leg. 86, núm. 3, ramo 1. The material in Patronato, leg. 86, núm. 3, ramo 1, includes probanzas of a number of Cárdenas Valencia’s ancestors and a part of his own probanza of 1633.

3 For this degree, see the Appendix, p. 28–29.

4 A. G. I., Patronato, leg. 182, ramo 51.

5 Probanzas del Dr. Pedro Sánchez de Aguilar, A. G. I., Mexico, leg. 299.

6 Valencia, Cárdenas, Relación historical eclesiástica, pp. 62–63.Google Scholar

7 A. G. I., Indiferente General, leg. 2862.