The importance of this text lies in the fact that it represents from the primary source the importance given to the entailed estate. The entailed an estate was a group of goods that constituted the patrimony normally created by the nobility and accredited before a notary. It was an indivisible group that sought to maintain the lineage in perpetuity. It was normally assigned to the first-born male. However, the casuistry was extended and regulated in the Laws of Toro in 1505. Most of a nobleman’s property was normally integrated in the estate, but some could be reserved for the second-born of the family. Indeed, as it was indivisible, it passed entirely to the first-born, so that the younger siblings did not have such a guaranteed future as the first-born. For this reason, the nobility tried to place these second-born children in the church and other institutions in order to give them a stable future.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVI

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/4617

Resource type: Historical source

Source: SANCH1S SlVERA, José: Alguns documents i curtes privades quepertanyeren al segon duc de Gandía en Joan de Borja. Notes per a la historia d'Alexandre VI, CE1C«Alfonsel Vell», Gandía, 2001 (ed. de S. LA PARRA del original en castellano: Valencia, 1919), apéndice1, pp 177-185, cit.de p. 182

Language: Spanish

Date: 31/1/1509

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: SANCH1S SlVERA, José: Alguns documents i curtes privades quepertanyeren al segon duc de Gandía en Joan de Borja. Notes per a la historia d'Alexandre VI, CE1C«Alfonsel Vell», Gandía, 2001 (ed. de S. LA PARRA del original en castellano: Valencia, 1919), apéndice1, pp 177-185, cit.de p. 182

Abstract: Point one of the marriage contracts between Duke Joan III and Joan of Aragon and Gurrea, which emphasises the importance of the integrity of the entailed estate

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