Los Mármol, un linaje de origen converso al servicio de la Monarquía española

Abstract

This article will present an analysis of the widely Mármol lineage during the Modern Age, with their different families and members, which developed and had a remarkable social mobility under the protection Crown of Castile between the XVth and XVIIIth centuries. Beginning with the founder of the lineage, Alonso de Toledo, the Spanish court physician, we are going to approach to the path of his descendants: some of them members of the clergy, militars, officials, intellectuals and oligarchs in several towns. We will focus on the variety of their strategies in order to obtain the nobelty position and social ascension. Also the article shows the real origin of the Mármol and definitively confirms their New Christian blood.