Alfonso VII - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:59:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Alfonso VII - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Sectors of activity in Sigüenza (1521-1797) https://historylab.es/sectors-of-activity-in-siguenza-1521-1797/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sectors-of-activity-in-siguenza-1521-1797 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:25 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/sectores-de-actividad-en-siguenza-1521-1797/ Table showing the number of people registered in Sigüenza and their division by sector of activity between 1521 and 1797

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]]> In 1138, Alfonso VII donated the lower part of Sigüenza to the Episcopal power, completing it with its castle in 1146 and uniting it into a single municipality. Thus began an Episcopal Lordship that would last almost seven centuries, until Don Juan Díaz de la Guerra renounced his jurisdiction in 1796 in favour of the Crown.
In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Sigüenza was a great administrative and economic centre for an extensive territory, which meant that economic activities had a great influence on all the economic activity in the area. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the data on professions obtained from the neighbourhoods are rather scarce, and do not allow us to recreate exactly what the economic model of Sigüenza was like, although they do outline some of the patterns present in that chronology, such as a secondary sector imposing itself on the rest of the occupations.
In the 18th century, the data begin to be much more complete, with a secondary sector that continues to predominate over the rest, but practically on a par with the primary and tertiary sectors.

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