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Thanks to the huge book on the payments made to the soldiers of the Barcelona shipyard between the years 1584-91, we can have an idea of what they looked like. To identify each individual and to avoid fraud, a brief physical description was added along with some other data (1):
Lorenzo Roger, from Barcelona, son of Lorenzo Roger. Mulatto color, his head begins to turn gray. He has served as a soldier since 17 April 1575 with 30 reales PM and has served as a soldier until 29 March 1583, because from that day he serves as a gatekeeper of the shipyard (2):
Esteban Garriga, son of Guillem Garriga, 21-year-old native of Barcelona, of medium height, good face and with a large knife-slash from the head to the right side of the right eyebrow. He settled as a soldier of the shipyard on 24 April 1583 with 30 reals per month (3):
Francisco del Val, son of Martín del Val, a 35-year-old neighbor of Santacruz in Aragon. Black bearded, small body, toothless from the top. He has served as a soldier since 15 December 1576 (4):
Francisco Travieso, the son of Pascual Travieso, from and neighbor of the town of Candelera in Catalonia, aged 35, in good shape, with a knife-slash to the middle of the forehead that almost reached his nose. He settled as a soldier of the shipyard on 7 July 1583 (5):
Baltasar Lozano, son of Clemente Lozano, native from Aranda del Duero. Small complexion, large eyes and black eyebrows, beginning to grow a beard, with a knife-slash on the thumb of the right hand and another on the head, aged 24 or so (6):
Joan Bosque from Llissá, near Barcelona, son of Pere Bosque. Red-bearded, gray-haired, 38 years-old, with a good body and large mustaches. He has been a soldier since 17 April 1575, with 30 reales per month (7):
And so many more. The provenance is varied, Barcelona and the nearest territories (like Valencia, Mallorca) predominate. But there is people from Asturias, Andalusia, Navarre and even from Genoa or France. Almost all of them are bearded hipsters and tough guys full of scars xD
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