Gonzalo de Baraona Notary - Manuscript; Trial report on the heritage in favour of Doña Ana Blanca de Rubian - 1548

114-sheet handwritten notebook. Author: Gonzalo de Baraona (notary public) Date: 1548 Language: Spanish Script: Gothic script, procedural style Subject: legal Size: 31 x 23 cm Content: Family lawsuit over Rodriguez de Rubián's inheritance. After dying without male descendants, his widow Ana Blanca and the deceased's family go into lawsuits to get the inheritance. The family of the deceased doubt about the paternity of Ana Blanca’s pregnancy. The secluded widow defends herself against the accusations by providing evidence and testimony. Different topics and inventories related to their lives are mixed. The facts take place in the city of Orense and nearby (Galicia - Spain) in the entailed state of Alvaro Solís de Rivadereira. Manuscript structure: . The sheets of the document are numbered, from folio 2 to folio 114 (the first handwritten sheet is missing) . You can distinguish 5 parts. There are blank sheets to separate them. [folio 2 to a 38] [folio 40 a 46] [folio 48 a 80] [folio 86 a 108] [folio 110 a 114] . It comes with a loose sheet outside the body of the manuscript, written in the 19th century, where the text is summarised and the archive is sorted. Special characteristics of the manuscript: This handwritten document is very rare for its extension of 114 sheets. This manuscript is an important testimony of Castilian society in the middle of the 16th century.