Señores y hacendados. Ventas de señoríos y vinculación a mayorazgos en Castilla durante la Edad Moderna: El Reino de Jaén (siglos XVI-XVII)

Francisco Javier Illana López

doi:10.70794/hs.113459

Authors

Francisco Javier Illana López Universidad de Jaén https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0969-0517

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.113459

Keywords:

Sales of jurisdictions, manors, entailed estates, social ascent, Kingdom of Jaen

Abstract

This paper analyzes the processes of sale of manors and their link to entailed estates in Castile during the Modern Age. Specifically, we focus on the Kingdom of Jaen between the 16th and 17th centuries as a spatial and chronological context. To observe the linkage mechanisms, we establish two possibilities, depending on whether or not the families that founded manors had previously linked estates. Additionally, we examine how these purchases affected the entailed estates of the individuals who became lords, because they systematically went into debt and sold their patrimony in order to pay the Crown the price of this title.

Author Biography

Francisco Javier Illana López, Universidad de Jaén

Doctor in Modern History from the University of Jaén. He has been a research initiation fellow at the Institute of History of the CSIC (Madrid), hired as an FPU at the University of Jaén and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the same university, among other contracts held. He has spent three-month periods in Valladolid, Palermo, Naples and Paris. His main line of research is the sale of manors in Castile, Naples and Sicily, a subject to which he has devoted, in addition to his doctoral thesis, several articles in journals such as Chronica Nova, Tiempos Modernos, Magallánica, Mediterranea-ricerche storiche, Vegueta, Historia y Genealogía, etc.