CHARLES V AND THE FRANCISCANS ON THE ROAD TO THE NEW WORLD. THE SANLUQUEÑO CONVENT OF SAINT MARY OF JESUS

Abstract

For Charles V, the evangelization of the New World was a matter of state, favoring the road of the Franciscans, who had to wait precariously in Seville and elsewhere, with the judicial change of his convent of Sanlúcar de Barrameda to the custody of the Indies in 1533, because of its special location, next to the beisting point of West Indies Fleet. It underwent a major remodeling, with a large cell bedroom, refectory and cloister, until it was ruined in the mid-18th century.