Legitimación filial en el Buenos Aires tardo-colonial. El caso de Domingo Zapiola

Abstract

In this paper we will analyze the judicial file of the Cabildo de Buenos Aires, on the filial legitimization of the natural son of the neighbor Manuel Zapiola: Sunday. This document will be used as a tool to explain how the legitimacy of the young person reflects essential elements of kinship, social relations and behaviors that conditioned the young man and his father. The latter under two factors: the first marriage and the second moral honesty and respect in the public world. In this way we observe the document will help us to respond as the legitimization of Sunday Antonio Zapiola benefited both the father and the son within colonial society while the son was the legitimation the key to access a better ecclesiastical position for the father was a matter of completing your reality with respect to the neighborhood.