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The sources - after

1- ORIGINAL SOURCES. Documents of the protagonists.

1.3- About what happened at the end of the trip

Letter from Emperor Carlos V to Juan Sebastián Elcano, acknowledging receipt of his and asking him to come and see him:

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Source: Historical Archive of Euskadi

By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 2 of the link.

Notes of the expenses caused by the unloading of the Victoria ship, and news of the spices that you brought from your trip :

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Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Royal Provision of Carlos I in which he grants 500 ducats per year to Juan Sebastián de Elcano:

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By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 3 of the link

Letter from Juan Sebastián Elcano to Emperor Carlos V requesting grants:

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Source: Historical Archive of the Basque Country

Source: Proceedings II International Congress on the 1st Tour of the World, Sanlucar de Barrameda, 2017.

Thanks to Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa, and defense of his salary:

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Source: Cristóbal Bernal. V Centennial First Around the World on Facebook.

Justice to Ginés de Mafra after being presumed dead by his wife:

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Royal Decree to the justices of the kingdoms of Spain so that, given information, they do justice in what he asks Ginés de Mafra, a pilot who was in the Magallanes army, on the crime of adultery and misappropriation of property committed by his wife, Catalina Martínez From the market.

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General Archive of the Indies INDIFERENTE, 421, L.12, F.68R-69V

Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal Certificate of pardon from Carlos I to Juan Sebastián de Elcano for having sold a ship to foreigners:

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By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 4 of the link

Royal Decree from Carlos I to Juan Sebastián de Elcano to come to meet 'the most' that he could bring from those who have come with him, in December 1523:

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By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 5 of the link

Royal warrant to the officials of the Casa de Contratación to send all possible information after the return of the ship Victoria, on October 10, 1522 :

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of the maravedís that Domingo de Ochandiano, treasurer of this House, has given and paid for costs that have been made in the unloading of the spices that came in the ship named Victoria, in which Captain Juan Sebastián del Cano came, from September 7, five hundred and twenty-two, that we learned of their arrival in the port of San Lúcar de Barrameda, onwards and in maintenance refreshment that was sent to them and in other things necessary for the manifestation of it:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of xarcias, sails and rigging carried by the Victoria nao on its return:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal certificate by which Cristóbal de Haro is ordered to deliver all the nail arrived on the Victoria ship, dated October 10, 1522:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of the way that the boxes and sacks with nails of the captain and master and pilot and sailors who came on the Victoria nao, on November 6, were weighed and delivered to Diego Díaz, merchant, on behalf of Cristóbal de Haro, merchant from Burgos one thousand and five hundred and twenty-two years:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Certificate of Carlos I reiterating the grant of 500 ducats per year to Elcano, which are owed to him from the first grant, and which are paid to him when he returns from the spice, where he has gone as captain of one of the naos of the navy:

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By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 8 of the link

Letter from the Bishop of Burgos to Don Juan de Velasco offering the ship San Antonio for his service after her return:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of spices delivered by the crew of the nao Victoria:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal certificate by which it is ordered to deliver to Cristóbal de Haro all the nail arrived in the Victoria ship, dated October 17, 1522:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of xarcias, sails and rigging carried by the San Antonio ship on its return:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Accounts of Magellan's salary after his death:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal warrant to go to Martín de la Mezquita with the salary that was assigned to him, while the Magellan army returned.

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal certificate for payment of salary to Miguel de Mezquita, complying with what he and Fernando de Magallanes had served, in the year 1525:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula for payment of the salary of Rui Falero to his brother Francisco Falero while the latter's illness lasts:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal card for payment of 15,000 maravedís to Juana Durango, Juan Serrano's wife:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal ID for payment of another 15,000 maravedís to Juana Durango, Juan Serrano's wife:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula so that Francisco Falero would be paid the salary that Rui Falero had been assigned, in view of the fact that Eva Alfonso, his wife, had not come from Portugal to meet him. :

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Testament of Juan Sebastián Elcano, granted in 1526 aboard the ship Santa María de la Victoria in the Loaysa Expedition:

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Documents on Juan Sebastián Elcano: testament and other instruments related to his family.

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General Archive of the Indies PATRONATO, 38, R.1

By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 2 of the link.

Last page of the will of Juan Sebastián del Cano, with his signature and that of several witnesses -among them a young Andrés de Urdaneta-, granted on July 26, 1526. Elcano died a few days later, on August 4.

That this document reached Spain was miraculous, as it happens with so many others in this bibliography.

Royal Decree of the Emperor giving weapons license to Juan Sebastián de Elcano and two other people. Elcano has requested it because some people 'like him badly' and fear for his life:

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By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 6 of the link

Royal decree of the Council approving Juan Sebastián de Elcano's plan to bring the army to La Coruña and praising his services:

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By Borja Aguinagalde. See Appendix 1, Document No. 7 of the link

Interrogation, evidence and proceedings on possession of the Maluco, with testimony of the survivors (here we see the age of many of them):

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General Archive of the Indies PATRONATO, 48, R.15

Probanza of Francisco Falero:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula to deliver to Francisco Falero the amounts that he had earned from his salary, on which a lawsuit was filed with Eva Afonso, who had them seized:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula by which a life pension of 30,000 maravedís is granted to Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula for Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa to be paid his salary, not subject to embargo, who had been absent from Seville:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula by which Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa is ordered to pay as heir to Hans Vargue:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Coat of arms to Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa:

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Source: PARES. AGI, PATRONATO, 87, No. 1, R.3 folio 79 recto, and AGI, MP-ESCUDOS, 231.

Royal certificate of payment to the father and heir of cabin boy Domingo de Cubillana:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Representation of Francisco Falero to the Council of the Indies, listing his services, requesting that he be given something to eat:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Real certificate to pay María de Morón, 54,303 maravedís, the rest of the salary and quintada owed to Juan de Ortega, her son:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Exemption to the heirs of Captain Juan de Cartagena of 48,217 maravedís, which were worth their merchandise that returned from Maluco:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal Certificate to pay Catalina del Puerto, mother and heir of Juan Sebastián del Cano:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Treaty of Zaragoza by which Portugal buys the possession rights of the Maluco from Castile in the year 1529:

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Archivo General de Indias Patronato, 40, N.2, R.1

By Cristóbal Bernal, source: Sevilla 2019-2022

Manual book of charge and data of the Treasury of the House of Contracting 1515 - 1524 :

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Source: AGI, CONTRATACION, 4675B, L.2

Manual book of charge and data of the Treasury of the House of Contracting 1525 - 1530 :

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Source: AGI, CONTRATACION, 4675B, L.4

Manual book of charge and data of the Treasury of the House of Contracting 1530 - 1535 :

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Source: AGI, CONTRATACION, 4675B, L.5

Provision of the Council of the Indies asking for a reason for what was paid to Andrés de San Martín, so that his brother Cristóbal could assert his rights over the inheritance:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cards to pay the daughter and brother of the pilot Andrés de San Martín:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

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Royal cedula for the heirs of Juan de Morales, doctor and surgeon, to be paid:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Real payment certificate to Juan de Ortega's mother:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Real certificate requesting the reason for the salary due to Juan Serrano, claimed by his wife and children:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal certificate by which a grace of 20 ducats is granted to Juana de Durango, wife of the pilot Juan Serrano:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal cedula by which Cristóbal de Haro is ordered to give an account of the amount owed to Francisco Ruiz, who had gone in the Magallanes army, and his wife Beatriz Martín claimed:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal Decree of the year 1543 by which a payment is ordered to Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa, Rui Falero and his brother (Last clue about them?):

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  • Royal Certificate with payment order to Espinosa and Falero in 1543 v. original (see page 567 and document date on page 575 )

INDIFFERENT General Archive of the Indies, 1963, L.8

Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Letter from the Emperor to D. Juan III asking to go and free Juan Serrano, captive of the king of Luzon.

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Torre do Tombo National Archive PT / TT / CC / 1/34/44

Letter from King D. Juan III for the governors of Malaca and Maluco to find out if the pilot Juan Serrano was captive, and to do all the diligence to get his freedom and rescue him on the ships of India to take him to the Emperor, his brother, that he wrote about that.

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Torre do Tombo National Archive PT / TT / CC / 1/35/108

Letter from Miguel de Rodas to the King of Portugal, informing him about the impossibility of going to kiss his hands, without being ungrateful and traitorous to the Emperor.

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Torre do Tombo National Archive PT / TT / CC / 1/30/100

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Letter from King Juan III to Luis da Silveira regarding what to say to Emperor Carlos V after the arrival of the ship Victoria

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Torre do Tombo National Archive PT / TT / GAV / 15/1/59

As Gavetas da Torre do Tombo. Vol. 4: (GAV. 15), entry 3017

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1- ORIGINAL SOURCES. Documents of the protagonists.

1.1- About what happened before starting the trip

1.2- About what happened during the trip

1.3- About what happened after the trip

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