Banditry was a reality that affected the territories of the Crown of Aragon, especially at the end of the 16th century. The emergence of armed bands that raided the trade routes was due to the worsening economic situation in these regions. It was a widespread reality in Catalonia, Aragon and, of course, Valencia. The difficulty in dealing with this banditry lay in the fact that it involved a large number of actors, some of whom had great power, such as nobles and churchmen, many of whom were in a disastrous situation. This was intertwined with another type of banditry such as that deployed by the Moors. The latter was the variant that most monopolised the pragmatics and was accused of being the cause of all evils. Measures designed to put an end to this type of problem encountered numerous obstacles due to the nobility’s distrust of interference in their jurisdiction, so that pragmatic pragmatics were issued which tended to admonish anyone who colluded with this type of crime. In this case, it is the pragmatic order of 7 June 1586 in Valencia. With this type of ordinances and pragmatics, an attempt was made to put an end to this evil, which caused real concern in Spain at the end of the 16th century.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVI

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/44686/1/Revista-de-Historia-Moderna_32.pdf

Resource type: Historical source

Source: Canet, J.L. y Romero, D.: Crides, pragmàtiques, edictes, cartesi ordres per a l’administració i govern de la Ciutat i Regne de València en el segle XVI, Valencia, 2002

Language: Valencian

Date: 7/6/1586

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: ; Canet, J.L. y Romero, D.: Crides, pragmàtiques, edictes, cartesi ordres per a l’administració i govern de la Ciutat i Regne de València en el segle XVI, Valencia, 2002

Abstract: Clausula 14 of the pragmatica of 7 June 1586, promulgated against badolerism

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