... have learned that his ancestors served the crown in the Reconquest and that he was soldiering in the Low Countries in 1623. Perhaps as a reward for service rendered, Philip IV commissioned Tovilla alcalde mayor of the provinces of Verapaz, Golfo Dulce, Sacapulas, and El Manché. He left Cádiz in late...

...Robert S. Chamberlain Relaciones histérico-descriptivas de la Verapaz, el Manché y Lacandón, en Guatemala . Edited by Scholes France V. and Adams Eleanor B. . Guatemala , 1960 . Editorial Universitaria . Ediciones del tercer centenario de la introducción de la imprenta en...

...Robert S. Chamberlain Relación sobre la pacificación y población de las provincias del Manché i Lacandón . 2nd ed. By de León Pinelo Antonio . Introduction by Delgado Jaime . Madrid , 1958 . José Porrúa Turanzas . Pp. xxxii , 44 . Paper. Copyright 1959 by Duke...

.... The Spanish conquest of this region began in 1574 but was not completed until the late seventeenth century, when the Manche Chol were congregated into mission villages. The documents tell the story of this conquest in the words of Spaniards, but not Maya. Unlike the Maya to the south or the Nahuatl speakers...