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The Marquesado del Valle de Oaxaca was the seignorial estate in New Spain belonging to Hernán Cortés and his descendants. The Marquesado was granted to Cortés by King Charles V on July 6, 1529, and continued to be held by his descendants throughout the colonial period, until 1811.
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- Gutiérrez Brockington, Lolita (1989). The Leverage of Labor: Managing the Cortés Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822308843.
- Riley, G. Michael (1973). Fernando Cortés and the Marquesado in Morelos, 1522-1547: A Case Study in the Socioeconomic Development of Sixteenth-Century Mexico. University of New Mexico. ISBN 0826302637.
