National Police agents have recovered in the cities of Valladolid and Madrid eight historical documents of great value belonging to the General Archive of the Palace, as reported by the Interior Ministry.
Three of them were going to be auctioned in a well -known auction room in Barcelona and the owner said they were part of an inheritance of their father. The other five documents were part of the family library of the owners of an antique library in Madrid.
The investigation began last June after a communication from the General Archive of the Palace, through the Ministry of Culture, in which they reported that, in a well -known auction room in Barcelona, three historical documents belonging to the real collections of National Heritage that were disappeared as the General Archive of the Palace were going to auction.
These three documents are a Royal Decree of Emperor Felipe II dated 1600 and two librettos of the funeral of Carlos V and María Tudor in Brussels, 1559.
The police investigation allowed to identify the person who owns the documents that were going to be auctioned, stating that it was antiquarian and that it was not the owner, facilitating the identity of this person.
Once the documents intervened in a precautionary way and after contacting the owner, a resident in Valladolid, he said that they were part of a family inheritance of his father and when he was aware of his origin, he showed his desire that they were voluntarily transferred to National Heritage.
Subsequently, the researchers were aware that in the same file from which the recovered documents had disappeared, five others were missing to locate. These would be held by the family that owns an antiquarian library in Madrid.
After conversations from the agents with this family, they voluntarily donated the five documents being an autograph of Felipe IV of 1621, a marginal decree of Felipe III of 1621, a decree of Felipe IV of 1633, a letter from the Lieutenant of the Warden of the Casa de Campo de 1621 and a consultation of the Secretary of the Board of Works and Forests of 1631.
Currently all these documents have already been delivered and have been incorporated into the funds of the General Archive of the Palace located in the Royal Palace in Madrid.