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

ad_hlab_min — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:21:47 +0000

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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Capitulaciones matrimoniales entre el capitán D. Andrés Carrasco Girón y Dña Magdalena de Balboa Calvillo, Huéscar, 1624

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Marriage contracts between members of the power elite of Huéscar (Granada) in 1624. Dispensation of consanguinity is necessary due to the existence of kinship between the contracting parties. The conditions of the marriage are made explicit. Among them, the bride will contribute 5000 ducats, of which 3000 will be in trousseau, jewels and house plus the expenses of the dispensation, and the rest in money. The bridegroom will contribute the goods that his father D. Gabriel Carrasco Girón has and enjoys from the bond founded by Don Gabriel Carrasco and Andrés Carrasco, his father and grandfather, which are the house and farmhouse of the Raigadas with all its annexes and belongings and the main houses that he has in the city. In addition, he is granted a vineyard of 7000 vines. It is specified that his father cedes, renounces and transfers the usufruct and emolument of the entail and bond to the said Captain Andrés Carrasco Girón, his eldest son. He will also be the heir to another entailed estate held by his father and founded by Mayno de Cernúsculi, the latter’s grandfather.

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Inventario de bienes y rentas de Don Cristóbal de Bustos Carrasco Balboa, provenientes de los mayorazgos de Balboa, Carrasco y Cernúsculi. Huéscar, 1752

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Transcribed document of the inventory of goods and rents made in 1752 from the Balboa, Carrasco and Cernúsculi entailed estates accumulated by Don Cristóbal de Bustos Carrasco Balboa. This is an example of the patrimony of the members of the power elite of a mountainous area of southern Spain such as Huéscar (Granada) in the mid-18th century. All properties are detailed, with special mention of the land, specifying the extension, quality, type of crops, number of trees and vines as well as the location. It also lists houses, plots of land, censuses and a flour mill, all of them with their annual income. The inventory is valued at 56,676 reales 30 mrs/year, and above all the irrigated land, which is worth 44,023 reales 13 mrs/year

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Representación socioprofesional en el Regimiento de Pamplona (s. XVIII)

ad_hlab_min — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:18:07 +0000

En su objetivo de ostentar los puestos de la administración local navarra, la nobleza diseñó y estableció un proceso a través del cual los miembros de la aristocracia podían lograr acceder a la carrera política durante la Modernidad. La educación desde la infancia temprana se convirtió en una herramienta más para superponerse al resto de población, reservándose además los puestos de gobierno y administración cuando se alcanzase la edad y capacidad suficiente.
Ya desde los Reyes Católicos, en Navarra se situaban a personas de confianza en puestos de gobierno local, promoviendo procesos institucionales y sociales en los que debían ser revisados en sus cargos. Pero con el paso de los años los cargos concejiles de Pamplona fueron ocupados casi en su totalidad por la aristocracia urbana, llegando a su culmen en el siglo XVIII.
En cuanto a los regidores de la ciudad, en su mayoría eran nobles, recayendo el resto en determinados grupos socioprofesionales que apenas suponían el 1% de la población urbana total, siendo abogados, escribanos, procuradores y comerciantes. En cambio, una gran parte de los navarros (el 35% del total) quedaron excluidos de los cargos públicos locales durante casi toda la Modernidad. Esto da como resultado que en los pueblos de menor entidad la autonomía del poder fuese más laxa, centrándose los principales titulados navarros en ocupar cargos de mayor nivel político y social, dejando la preocupación en estas zonas rurales en manos de la baja y media nobleza.

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