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What became of Martín Ocelotl after he was shipped to Spain in 1537?

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The trial file ends at the sentence of confiscation and perpetual exile. No arrival record, prison register or burial entry in Spain has been shown to name him, and no later Mexican document mentions him. The story that the ship carrying him was lost at sea circulates in secondary accounts without a document behind it. Nobody has taken a position on his fate, because there is nothing to take a position on.

What would resolve this A search of the Casa de la Contratación records in Seville for the sailing that carried him, and of the registers of the religious houses and prisons to which exiled offenders of the period were sent. The relevant Seville material is catalogued and has not been searched for this purpose.
OpenSpanish colonial archival history; Nahuatl palaeographyRichard E. Greenleaf, Zumárraga and the Mexican Inquisition, 1536-1543
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Zumárraga and the Mexican Inquisition, 1536-1543
Richard E. Greenleaf, Academy of American Franciscan History, 1961
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