Philip V’s victory in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) led to the establishment of a new political and administrative reality in Spain. The old feudal institutions were replaced by other forms of centralist government whose aim was, in the words of Philip V, to establish “the same laws, customs, usages, customs and courts […] to abolish and entirely repeal […] all privileges, privileges, practices and customs…”. The new reality generalised the legislation of Castile to the whole territory. However, the territories that supported Philip against Archduke Charles, the Basque areas and Navarre, did maintain the foral regime. The documentation presented here corresponds to the Nueva Planta Decree of the Audiencia of the Principality of Catalonia.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/2321228?nm

Resource type: Historical source

Format: 8 pages; 29,7 x 21 cm

Source: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. Portal de Archivos Españoles. Archivo de la Corona de Aragón

Language: Spanish

Date: 1716

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©MECD. Archivos Estatales (España)

Abstract: Decree of Nueva Planta applied to the Principality of Catalonia on 16 January 1716 after the War of Succession

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