Alto clero - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:15:44 +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 Alto clero - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Beneficiaries of the wills of the Murcian prebendaries (1743-1820) https://historylab.es/beneficiaries-of-the-wills-of-the-murcian-prebendaries-1743-1820/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beneficiaries-of-the-wills-of-the-murcian-prebendaries-1743-1820 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/beneficiarios-de-los-testamentos-de-los-prebendados-murcianos-1743-1820/ Table showing the importance of the family for the high clergy of the cathedral of Murcia at the time of testament: family awareness, mentality and strategies of patrimonial concentration

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]]> The resource deals with the inheritance strategy of the prebendados of the cathedral of Murcia between 1743 and 1820. Despite what the ecclesiastical literature proposed (that the clergy’s assets should be destined to the Church and the poor), the high clergy of Murcia returned the benefits they obtained to their families. In fact, of the 46 wills studied, 52% (24 cases) had the clergyman’s family as the main beneficiary; 24% (11 cases) the Church; and another 24% the family-Church binomial. Overall, the burden of family obligations was the main motivation for making a will. The possible inheritance received and the patrimony to be ordained clergy subject to celibacy dispersed the family assets among the offspring; the return of the assets to the family meant, once again, the concentration of patrimony. However, the author warns, the tendency to put the family as the main beneficiary decreased by 9% compared to the period from 1591 to 1746.

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]]> Typology of testamentary beneficiaries according to the groups of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Murcia (1743-1820) https://historylab.es/typology-of-testamentary-beneficiaries-according-to-the-groups-of-the-chapter-of-the-cathedral-of-murcia-1743-1820/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=typology-of-testamentary-beneficiaries-according-to-the-groups-of-the-chapter-of-the-cathedral-of-murcia-1743-1820 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipologia-de-beneficiaros-testamentales-segun-los-grupos-del-cabildo-de-la-catedral-de-murcia-1743-1820/ Table showing family concerns according to the group to which they belonged within the chapter of the cathedral of Murcia. Social ascent as a source of family awareness

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]]> All the clergy did not have the same concerns or strategies of social reproduction. The resource shows us the differences in the wills of the cathedral chapter of Murcia between 1743 and 1820. Although there were common tendencies, such as favouring the family lineage through patrimony against the moralistic treatises of the Church, the strength with which these policies of inheritance transmission were perpetuated differed according to the ecclesiastical grade. The most family-conscious group in the chapter was the Dignities. The author identifies the trajectories of each of the members and reveals that, in contrast to the traditional idea of belonging to the nobiliary estate, and thus being imbued with the idea of lineage, the members were made up of families who had recently joined the local oligarchies in a process of social ascent. Their arrival in the upper strata gave rise to the need to consolidate their position there, so that nurturing the family through patrimony was one of their concerns. The rest of the groups, both canons and racioneros, also underwent this process. Many of these family estates led to the entry of another generation into the clerical estate, a fundamental issue within the strategies of social reproduction and perpetuation of the lineage.

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]]> Amount and distribution of the mandas to the Church of the prebendados of the cathedral of Murcia (1743-1820) https://historylab.es/amount-and-distribution-of-the-mandas-to-the-church-of-the-prebendados-of-the-cathedral-of-murcia-1743-1820/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amount-and-distribution-of-the-mandas-to-the-church-of-the-prebendados-of-the-cathedral-of-murcia-1743-1820 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cuantia-y-distribucion-de-las-mandas-a-la-iglesia-de-los-prebendados-de-la-catedral-de-murcia-1743-1820/ Resource that deals with the amount of reals that the chapter of the cathedral of Murcia allocated between 1743 and 1820 to the poor and religious institutions

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]]> The concerns of the transmission of the patrimony for the members of the cathedral chapter of Murcia were their own families. Between 1743 and 1820, 52% of the main beneficiaries of the testamentary mandates of the chapter testify to this. However, the moralist treatises and the doctrine of the Church tried to ensure that the distribution favoured the ecclesiastical institution itself and the poor. How was the distribution and amount of the mandates for these items? As a minority with respect to the total inheritance, the main beneficiary was the cathedral factory with 37,700 reales. The hospital of San Juan de Dios also benefited with 13,220 reales and the Casa de la Misericordia with 9,870 reales. All these institutions had in common the assistance to the poor. Below 9,000 reales, we find ecclesiastical entities: convents, parishes or confraternities, the latter with the lowest contribution: 528.

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