Abstract:
The article seeks, through a diversified documentation - which includes inventories and wills, town hall proceedings, petitions to the councils of the monarchy, inquisitorial documents, among others - to present aspects of the trajectories of three Flemings who had their lives articulated by passages and stays in the village of São Paulo de Piratininga, in the first decades of the 17th century. The trajectories of Manoel Vandale, Cornelio de Arzam and Pedro de Sauce must be inserted in the context of the Hispanic Monarchy, and in its possibilities of circulation, dialoguing with a troubled moment in the relations between the Netherlands and the Spanish empire of the Habsburgs. A moment in which the conditions of naturalness and foreignness, as well as of illegality and suspicion, went hand in hand with the usual presence of Flemish people in parts of Brazil, where, in many circumstances, they were fully inserted in economic networks on a regional or imperial scale.
Keywords:
Flemish; Colonial São Paulo; Hispanic Monarchy