Notas sobre la Cancillería del Onceno en tiempos de Minoridad: a propósito de dos cartas de Alfonso XI a la Orden de Santiago

The study of Alfonso XI’s documentation has been one of the our most important research area for the last few years. His detailed analysis that allowed us to have a good knowledge about the scripts of the first half of XIVth Century and, also, the activity and functions of the Royal Chancellery. We focus our attention on letters kept in Military Orders’ section of the National Historical Archive, because we have considered that was appropiate to review both of them, issues during mentoring time, as we have detected some susceptibles elements to realised a diplomatic criticize. Due to their exam, we have established how was the Chancellery practice in this chronological period and we have test that, during the younger age of Alfonso XI, the corruptions and the malpractice was common in the members of the central office of documental expedition.