Cartas ejecutorias are legal documents created in Spain from the late 1400s through the 1700s. They were usually commissioned copies at the end of a successful lawsuit to confirm a person's noble status for tax or legal purposes, and they were meant to be shown to others as both commemoration and proof of the owner's nobility. The original court copies of these documents (including unsuccessful suits) are still preserved in the royal archives of Valladolid and Granada, Spain, where the courts heard thousands of cases related to noble status during the late medieval and early modern periods.
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