"Pues doy Fe de que son tenidos como tales": Prácticas y discursos legitimantes en el intento de conformación de una posible nobleza rioplatense

Abstract

In the middle eighteenth century the great merchants of various Hispanic spaces, accumulate enough flow to allow them to purchase titles of nobility, distinction or form entails that shine on their names and perpetuate their purchased goods. This process is most evident in the Mexican and Peruvian spaces, but there aren't known specific cases to the Rí­o de la Plata area. As stated José Torre Revello, this doesn't imply that traders not to try to ennoble in the Rí­o de la Plata. This case study details as Don Vicente de Azcuénaga try to establish an entailed estate in the city of Buenos Aires in favor of his first-born Miguel. Through this study based on the "proofs" can be seen as family Azcuénaga aims to highlight its name to the rest of his contemporaries, but relations between father and son at once lead us to rethink questions concerning the traditions of accumulation and heritage conservation