The importance of the military element in the War of the Spanish Succession was decisive for the Austracist and Bourbon forces. The prominence of the armies and militias in the field of operations was followed by the need for Philip V to control the territories of the Crown of Aragon, for which the army was a relevant element. After the collapse of the foral regime, new criteria were established for the selection of personnel for the regidurias, which until then had been recruited by means of insaculation. The militarisation of the Aragonese territory was due to the fact that most of them had sworn allegiance to Charles of Austria, which led to a distrust of the monarch, which is why a kind of alliance was established with the military corps to guarantee order and obedience. The military administration would be reinforced in these territories practically until the second half of the 18th century, specifically until 1768-1769, as José Antonio Nieves Moreno says, when the trend began to change with a progressive victory of civilianism over militarism.
Collection: Statistics
Project: 5. Power and powers in the history of Europe: oligarchies, political participation and democracy., 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/4631
Resource type: Statistics
Format: Table
Source: MORENO NIEVES, José Antonio. Los militares en el gobierno local aragonés tras el Decreto de Nueva Planta. Revista de Historia Moderna, [S.l.], n. 16, p. 258, oct. 1997. ISSN 1989-9823.
Language: Spanish
Date: 1996
Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)
Identifier: MORENO NIEVES, José Antonio. Los militares en el gobierno local aragonés tras el Decreto de Nueva Planta. Revista de Historia Moderna, [S.l.], n. 16, p. 258, oct. 1997. ISSN 1989-9823.
Copyright: © José Antonio Moreno Nieves y © Revista de Historia Moderna
Abstract: Geographical distribution of the military councillors in Aragon from the Nueva Planta Decree until 1788
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