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Lima Colonial Records, 1688, 1698, Date acquired: 02/05/1957

 

Summary

Extent:
2.50 Linear Feet
Language:
Spanish; Castilian English
Preferred citation:

Lima Colonial Records, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-202

Background

Scope and content:

Four printed and manuscript documents from colonial Peru, documenting financial transactions and an excommunication in Lima.

Biographical / historical:

Don Melchor de Liñan y Cisneros was born in the year 1629 in Tordelaguna; (he was) the son of Don Franciso de Liñan y Cisneros and Doña Isabel Gonzáles. Educated at the University of Alcalá de Henares, he left there to become the priest of the parish of Santa Maria de Buitrago; from there he went to the parish of Tordelaguna, his native village, and thence to the parish of San Salvador in Madrid where he remained for four years, exercising the duties of a censor of the Supreme Council of the Inquisition until the year 1664 in which he was recommended by the king, Don Phillip IV, to the bishopric of Santa Maria. Three years later he was promoted to the episcopal see of Popoyán. He occupied this position until 1671 when he was elevated to the archdiocese of Charcas, being named at the same time Governor and Captain General of the new kingdom of Granada and President of the Royal Supreme Court of Santa Fe. The eleventh of December, 1676, he was promoted to the archbishopric of Lima. In 1678 he was named Viceroy, Governor and Captain General of Peru, replacing the Count de Castelet. His government ended the twenty-second of November, 1681.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Dr. Margaret Campbell
Processing information:

Processed February 4, 1964.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Church records and registers.
Financial Records
Places:
Peru

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Lima Colonial Records, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-202

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA