GUARDIANSHIP AND GUARDIANSHIP IN THE FAMILY OF HERNANDO DAZA, ​​MERCHANT OF MEDINA DEL CAMPO

Within the framework of studies on childhood during the Ancien Régime, this paper analyzes the protection systems activated in cases of orphanhood during minority, such as guardianship and curatorship. Following a methodology specific to the Historiographic Sciences and Techniques and Archival Sciences, the guardianship file has been reconstructed based on the paradigmatic case of the minors of the Daza family. The personal archive of the merchant Hernando Daza Medina contains the documentation generated in the mid-16th century during the performance of his duties as guardians and curators during the minority of three of his nephews, María Daza, Lope de Medina, and Jaime López Ram. These well-off minors' lives can be followed during those years, and the family's concern for them can be seen through the documents kept in the Daza collection of the Municipal Archive of Valladolid.

Framed within studies on childhood in the Old Regime, this work analyzes the protection systems activated in cases of orphanhood during minority, such as guardianship and curatorship. Following a methodology specific to Historiographic Sciences and Techniques and Archivistics, the guardianship file has been reconstructed based on the paradigmatic case of the minors of the Daza family. In the personal archive of the merchant Hernando Daza Medina, the documentation generated in the mid-16th century in the exercise of the functions of tutors and curators during the minority of three of his nephews, María Daza, Lope de Medina and Jaime López Ram, has been preserved. Some well-to-do minors whose life history can be followed during those years and the family's concern for them can be verified through the documents kept in the Daza collection of the Municipal Archive of Valladolid.