Dear Bob, in a first search, this is what I could find in the Spanish archives. It is probably necessary to continue investigating, if I find more information, I will let you know. The three scanned images correspond to digitized preserved in the General Archive of Simancas document.

Greetings,

Buenos días Bob, 

El Archivo del Reino  se localiza en Valencia, y lo gestiona la Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de la Generalitat Valenciana. , 

Te paso la dirección:

Archivo del Reino.

Dirección:

Paseo de la Alameda, 22 - 46010 Valencia

Teléfonos: 96 318 45 50

Fax: 96 318 45 27

E-mail: [email protected]

http://dglab.cult.gva.es/ArxiuRegne/documentacion_e.htm

Espero que esta información te pueda servir, pero si tuvieses alguna duda no dudes en consultarme,

Saludos

Ana

Buenos días, Ana,

Gracias, en gran medida, de la información, y la dirección de los archivos Valencia.

Mis mejores deseos,

Robertito

Dear Manuel,

Thank you, ever so much. These primary documents are FABULOUS ... as are you for taking the time to find them and send me copies.

A million thanks!

Bob

Dear colleague.

The link to the file of the Kingdom of Valencia you looking for is the following:

http://dglab.cult.gva.es/ArxiuRegne/fondosdoc_realcancilleria_e.htm

Thank you very much, Sra. Dra. del Carmen Rodriquez Lopez. I had found this webpage, earlier, from the link that Ana Ortega had provided. It is a great misfortune that none of these wonderful archives seem to be available online!

Once again, thank you for your attention, and taking the time to point-out the resource.

Best regards,

Bob Skiles 

Dear Robert,

Some information on Arredondo's family here:

Vicente de Cadenas Vicent, Caballeros de la Orden de Calatrava que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso...

https://books.google.es/books?id=XrL1LUfoTiEC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=Nicolas+Arredondo+y+Pelegrin+caballero+calatrava&source=bl&ots=3WVdJSYUA6&sig=RzXYwwtoYCtkMwXMmjdhEKpBzjk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pimDVb2QN4Wo-QHJ3YG4Cw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Nicolas%20Arredondo%20y%20Pelegrin%20caballero%20calatrava&f=false

Kind regards,

Rafael

Dear Rafael,

That is, indeed, a very valuable source of genealogical information on Joaquin de Arredondo and his ancestors. In fact, it is the most important single source of such information so far located. I had already found this book using Google Books online search, but that does not lessen my appreciation of your taking the time to point it out. I have transcribed the data from the (fortunately accessible few) pages on his ancestors, which was easy to make-sense-of, but the proof-of-nobility information was a bit more difficult to decode, particularly, since one cannot access the introductory pages of the book where this is explained. Fortunately, I was later able to find another online publication, in the same series, that allowed viewing of the introductory pages, and I was able to get the list of meanings/decodings for the abbreviations used in the text.

Thank you, again, Rafael, for your attention and assistance,

Regards,

Bob

Heresome useful links.

http://www.genealogia-es.com/enlazarc.html

http://www.bne.es/es/Colecciones/Archivo/

http://www.españaescultura.es/es/temas/bibliotecas/

I suggest you Archivo General de Indias. You could ask for documents not digitized; spanish are gentle peoples and very friendly! 

Ciao

dear friend. i correct some mistake.

I think reference for Italy campaign is the battle of BASSIGNANA and not Basiniana (1745). During the War of Austrian Succession, 27 September 1745 a battle was fought between the French-Spanish army, commanded by Marshal Maillebois, and the Austrian-Piedmontese commanded by General Schullembourg and Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy (Savoia). The victory went to the Franco-Spanish troops who swept into the Po Valley.

Valencia Po must be corrected in Valenza Po

Casal de Mogtgerrado must be corrected in Casal Monferrato (or Casale di Monferroto in old style italian oe Chasale de Monferrato in medieval form)

S. Pelegrin should be San Pellegrino.

Ciao

Dear Bruno,

I struggled to make the translation as best I could, verbatim from the original text to English (especially transcribing literally the place names, as printed, but checking with the limited period maps and documents I had available to ensure I had made as few really egregious errors as possible). As you know, I am no expert (not in translation, nor in history). I beg you may judge my unworthy efforts to bring long-overdue honor and recognition to this great man, the resting-place of whose mortal remains I have not even yet found, with your favor of patience.

For now, my primary purpose is to find the information, NOT to perfect the spellings and presentation of the idiom. I shall leave that to the (hopefully more knowledgeable than me) editor(s) of the volume, IF I am so lucky as to find enough material to complete a biography of Arredondo (and I am so lucky to find an interested publisher), before my allotted time on this mortal coil shall come to an end.

Regards,

Bob Skiles

dear friend, my only intent was don't  waste your time on researchs that would not have brought results because the tioinyms were incorrects. I can tell you that I have searched in Italian archives and I haven't found any material on the Italian campaign of Arredondo; probably because of his youth he was not yet a personality in the Spanish Army .Excuse me for my bad english; Bruno

Dear Bruno,

Thank you for the clarification; my dear friend, you have saved me countless hours of fruitless searching in the Italian archives where you have already finished the hard work. I am indebted to you for this great favor.

Many thanks,

Bob

PS - your English is fine! (I assure you, a million times better than my Italian) :)