La obligación de rescatar cautivos y la Orden de Santiago (1517-1535)

During the first half of the reign of the Emperor Carlos V the Order of Santiago contributed, so much of passive as active form, to the rescue of captive Christians retained in the north of Africa; for this intention it relied on a bottom of eventual income that it tried to attend to his obligations as redeeming institution, since it receives documents specially in 1525 and 1535