Juan Sanz and Barutell
Juan Sans de Barutell (1756 - 1822), writer, archivist, historian and Spanish seaman. Biography
He studied law at the University of Cervera and doctored in 1777. He entered the Royal Navy; took part in several naval expeditions and reached the rank of officer lieutenant of ship; since then the government commissioned him to investigate the Navy in the Spanish archives by making documentary collections and copying manuscripts; also copied documents that were guarded in the Real Academy of the History of Madrid. He was an academic of the Real of History and of the Good Letters and Natural Sciences of Barcelona. He held various positions in the Superior Organisms of the Navy and was also archivist in the Secretariat of the Navy and in the Archives of Corona de Aragón. In this last one was officially commissioned by the government to make investigations on the Catalan - Aragonese Navy of the Middle Ages: expeditions, armaments, wars, ordinances ...
Later, he moved to the General Archive of Simancas to carry out the same mission with the Navy of Castile with documentation dated between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. On January 15, 1798, he was given the task of examining, collecting, and copying the documentation from the Archivo de la Contaduría de Cartagena, where Jose Vargas Ponce had been doing the same work. He completed his assignment in July and was assigned on November 23, 1806 to the second assistant secretary of the General Directorate of the Navy. In 1808 he was appointed officer of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Navy that had just been created: since then he was considered separated from the service of the Navy. On August 22, 1809, he was appointed Mazarredo for Archivist of the Secretary's Office. Years later he served as an archival officer in the Corona de Aragón. As archivist of the Secretary of State of the Navy, he was instructed to make an exhibition with the presence of the files he found relating to the mountains of Segura de la Sierra, presenting in 1811 his Report on the geographical location and extension of the province of Segura the Sierra, with the towns and rivers it comprises, and the usefulness, government and administration of its mountains. He also wrote the General Index of diplomas, documents and other papers relating to the history of the navy of the Crown of Aragon; the General Index of diplomas, and other documents relating to the old Spanish navy, on which its military history must be based; the Memorandum on the uncertain origin of the bars of Aragon, former coat of arms of the county of Barcelona, the documents concerning the army which the king Don Pedro IV of Aragon ordered against the Genoese in 1351, with the relation of his naval campaign and of the battle that ... held on February 13, 1352 ... a historical story of this event is attached (Spanish Historical Memorial Book II, sn, 1851).
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