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SOLIS (David de). DEL Espediente Formado para Acreditar la Nobleza y Limpieza de Sangre de la Excma. Sra. Da. Elena Martin y Molina Marqueza Viuda de Castelflorit. Havana. 1854. - SOLIS (David de) DEL Espediente Formado para Acreditar la Nobleza y Limpieza de Sangre de la Excma. Sra. Da. Elena Martin y Molina Marqueza Viuda de Castelflorit . Expediente de limpeza de sangue e nobreza de D. Elena Martin y Molina, Marquesa Viuda de Castelflorit, organizado a pedido do Conde de Santo Vénia (D. José Maria Campos), Gran Cruz da Real e Distinta Ordem Espanhola de Carlos III, Gentil-homem de Câmara de S.M., Cavaleiro da Ordem Militar de Alcântara, Coronel de Cavalaria e do Regimento de Milícias Disciplinadas da Cidade de Matanzas, para instrução do processo de casamento. Havana, 1854. Havana, 1854. manuscrito sobre papel; [103] ff.; 2 brasões de armas a aguarela (assinados A. Silva); 1 árvore genealógica desdobrável, manuscrita a tinta (1000 × 1015 mm.); 320 mm. Encadernação com lombada em pele; títulos a ouro na pasta anterior; ex-libris 'Rien asns amour' na guarda anterior e António Capucho na posterior. Heraldic-genealogical document drawn up in Havana in 1854, with the purpose of proving the nobility and purity of blood of Dona Elena Martin y Molina, Dowager Marchioness of Castelflorit, in view of her marriage to Don José Maria Campos, Count of Santo Vénia, Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III, Gentleman of the Chamber of His Majesty, Knight of the Military Order of Alcántara and Colonel of Cavalry of the Regiment of Disciplined Militias of the City of Matanzas. The volume, titled ”David de Solis” in its binding, brings together documents proving the applicant's lineage – baptismal records, ecclesiastical and notarial certificates, information on nobility, good life, and customs – submitted to the Royal Court of Appeal of the island of Cuba, with the approval of the Captaincy General and the Delegated Superintendency of the Royal Treasury. The application was signed in Havana on July 8, 1854, by José Estéban, with a delivery note to the Political Secretariat on July 17 of the same year. The author, David de Solis, was of Spanish origin, having come to settle in Portugal in 1859, in the city of Guarda, where he completed the heraldic-genealogical work he had begun in Havana based on official documents, as reported in the ”Bibliografia Heráldica Portuguesa” by Eduardo de Campos de Azevedo Soares (Carcavelos, 1916, vol. 1, p. 3), transcribed on an endpaper by the Portuguese researcher Matias Lima. The volume includes two watercolor coats of arms, a high-quality heraldic composition signed by the Portuguese painter A. Silva, and a large fold-out family tree (approximately 1000 × 1015 mm), handwritten in ink, showing the ancestry of D. José Rafael Martin, father of D. Elena, over several generations, with branches through families of the Spanish and Cuban nobility. A document of great interest for the social and genealogical history of the Spanish-Cuban nobility of the mid-19th century, with connections to the world of Spanish colonial administration in Cuba. Unique. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate