Level of wealth of the bourgeoisie of León, 18th-19th centuries

During the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, different bourgeoisies developed in the city of León according to their professional specialisation: the commercial, financial, administrative and liberal professions bourgeoisie. The average wealth of all of them was 504,000 reals; 464,000 liquid if we discount debts and liabilities. However, there were large differences between sectors. The 3 families of the financial bourgeoisie, with an average of 893,883 reais, had 8 times more wealth than the bourgeoisie associated with the liberal professions: 116,489 reais on average for 9 families. The margins are completed with an average of 463,980 and 216,669 reais for the commercial and administrative bourgeoisie, respectively. In comparative methodology, the León bourgeoisie had lower values than those of Valencia, Cadiz or Vitoria, due to a less powerful domestic market than the port market.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 5. Power and powers in the history of Europe: oligarchies, political participation and democracy.

Chronology: XVIII, XIX

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/9108/9346

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Bartolomé Bartolomé, J. M. y García Fernández, M. (2011). "Patrimonios urbanos, patrimonios burgueses. Herencias tangibles y transmisiones inmateriales en la Castilla interior", en Studia Historica, vol. 33, p. 47.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2011

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Abstract: Resource that shows the patrimonial level of the different bourgeoisies of the city of León between the Ancien Régime and the consolidation of the liberal State

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