Testamento y codicilos de don Baltasar Rodrigo de Balboa Calvillo, Huéscar, 1647

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Transcription of the will and codicils of Don Baltasar Rodrigo de Balboa Calvillo, a member of the power elite of Huéscar (Granada), made in 1647. Lord of the villas of Cotillas and Casablanca, he was also the High Constable of the said town and a major constable of the Inquisition. From 1635 he headed the entailed estate founded by Rodrigo de Balboa, his fourth grandfather. The text refers to the lawsuit he was involved in over the Cotillas entailed estate. There are indications of a financial nature, especially referring to deeds of obligation and debts contracted. In this sense, the debts he has with his servants and for the value of 2620 masses stand out. There may be a possible case of bastardy. He justifies that a boy and a girl whose upbringing he assumed in Hellín and Murcia are not his children. The two marriages he contracted are specified, alluding to the value of the dowries, the arras and other commitments. He leaves as his heir his only daughter Doña Elvira de Balboa, as well as another possible son or daughter he might have with his second and current wife Doña Pascuala de Villanueva if she were pregnant at the time of his death. He also encloses a codicil in which he states that the post of major constable of the Inquisition, which he holds «for three lives», should pass to his brother-in-law Don Juan García de Villanueva, his wife’s brother. And for the «third life» of the post he appoints the person his wife designates. Finally, in the codicil he makes some clarifications and additions, especially in relation to the debts contracted with his servants and other bequests made to them.

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Dotes y arras nupciales

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La dote y las arras fueron dos instituciones jurídicas que representaban las aportaciones que hacían el marido y la mujer al matrimonio. La dote era la hacienda que llevaba consigo la mujer cuando se casaba, que recibía de sus padres y que, pese a ser propiedad de la esposa, sería administrada por el marido mientras durase el matrimonio. Era común, sobre todo en las clases altas, que las familias se endeudaran con tal de dotar convenientemente a sus hijas y procurar así un ascenso sociales o fortalecimiento de las redes sociales. La dote podría estar conformada por diversidad de bienes muebles o inmuebles, en incluso de empleos públicos. De ello dependería la procedencia social de las mujeres, siendo más comunes los bienes muebles en las criadas, por ejemplo, y los inmuebles en mujeres pertenecientes a familias adineradas. En todos los casos sí existiría un ajuar doméstico, compuesto de muebles, ropa de cama y mesa y menaje. Por su parte, las arras fueron la donación que hacía el marido a la mujer, y que se interpreta como el aporte que se hacía por tener acceso al cuerpo femenino y a los derechos sobre la descendencia. La obra de la imagen, titulada “La dote de la novia”, de José Gallegos y Arnosa, representa la formalización de estas aportaciones.

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Testamento y codicilos de don Baltasar Rodrigo de Balboa Calvillo, Huéscar, 1647

Dotes y arras nupciales