Real Audiencia

A Real Audience (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal awˈðjenθja]), or simply an Audience (Catalan: Reial Audience, Audience Reial, or Audience), was an appellate court in Spain and its empire. The name of the institution literally translates as Royal Audience.^[1] The additional designation chancillería (or cancillería, Catalan: cancelleria, English: chancellery^[2]) was applied to the appellate courts in early modern Spain.^[3] Each audiencia had oidores (Spanish: judges, literally, "hearers").

For the modern court, see Audience Nacional of Spain.

(Nueva Galicia), 1548, covering what is now northern Mexico

Guadalajara

1548, overseeing most of modern Colombia

Santa Fe de Bogotá (Nueva Granada)

(Upper Peru), 1559

Charcas

1565, with jurisdiction over most of modern Ecuador, the Peruvian Amazon, and Jaén, Tumbes and Popayán provinces

Quito

(Chile), 1565, but which was abolished in 1575

Concepcíon

in 1583 overseeing the Philippines and the Spanish East Indies

Manila

Burkholder, Mark A. and D. S. Chandler. Biographical Dictionary of Audiencia Ministers in the Americas. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982. 0-313-22038-7

ISBN

Burkholder, Mark A. (1977). . University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-0219-2.

From Impotence to Authority : The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencias, 1687-1808

Cunningham, Charles Henry (1919). . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-7222-2863-0.

The Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies as Illustrated by the Audiencia of Malina (1583-1800)

Elliott, J. H. (John Huxtable) (1964). . New York, St. Martin's Press.

Imperial Spain, 1469-1716

Elliott, J. H. "A Provincial Aristocracy: The Catalan Ruling Class in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" in Spain and its World, 1500-1700. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. 0-300-04217-5

ISBN

Fisher, Lillian Estelle (1926). . University of California publications in history; v. 15. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Viceregal Administration in the Spanish-American Colonies

Haring, C. H. (1947). . Harcourt, Brace and World.

The Spanish Empire in America

Parry, J. H. (John Horace) (1948). . Cambridge, Eng. : University Press.

The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century : a Study in Spanish Colonial Government

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