The Marquesado del Valle de Oaxaca was the seignorial estate in New Spain belonging to Hernán Cortés and his descendants. The Marquesado was granted to Cortés by King Charles V on July 6 1529, and continued to be held by his descendants throughout the colonial period, until 1811.

References

• Gutiérrez Brockington, Lolita (1989). The Leverage of Labor: Managing the Cortés Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688. Duke University Press.
• Riley, G. Michael (1973). Fernando Cortés and the Marquesado in Morelos, 1522-1547: A Case Study in the Socioeconomic Development of Sixteenth-Century Mexico. University of New Mexico.