Baja Extremadura - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:52:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Baja Extremadura - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Professions of the husbands and fathers of the brides of Lower Extremadura (17th century) https://historylab.es/professions-of-the-husbands-and-fathers-of-the-brides-of-lower-extremadura-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=professions-of-the-husbands-and-fathers-of-the-brides-of-lower-extremadura-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/profesiones-de-los-maridos-y-de-los-padres-de-las-novias-de-la-baja-extremadura-siglo-xvii/ Professions carried out by the fathers and husbands of the daughters and wives who married in Lower Extremadura in the 17th century

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]]> The wife brought to the marriage, either by herself or other persons on her behalf, a series of assets from the paternal surplus, which constituted the anticipation of a legitimate inheritance received at the time of the constitution of a new family. It was the husband who received the assets and, on the other hand, became the administrator of them with the obligation to return them to the heirs or the wife herself in the event of divorce or death of the husband. These goods delivered could appear with the estimate of the prices -estimated price- or without it, indicating only the description of the goods. As for the male professions, labourers are owners of land and livestock in large quantities, while cangueros are small taxpayers with little land and a few animals. Day labourers did not own agricultural real estate and worked for wages. The artisans, on the other hand, have all the distributions made during the 17th century as small taxpayers satisfying local needs. On the other hand, the graduates are those people in the service sector who needed certain studies in order to exercise their profession. 72% of marriages took place between families with the same qualifications, and this was more pronounced among farmers (84%). Along with wealth, there were two hierarchies of power: the possession of council posts and cleanliness of blood. Honour, power and wealth go hand in hand, as all the mayors and councillors who appear in the letters of dowry fall into the category of peasants, as do those who declare their nobility.

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]]> Average prices of estimated dowries in Lower Extremadura (constant reales de vellón (base 1000 = average 1601-1625)) https://historylab.es/average-prices-of-estimated-dowries-in-lower-extremadura-constant-reales-de-vellon-base-1000-average-1601-1625/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=average-prices-of-estimated-dowries-in-lower-extremadura-constant-reales-de-vellon-base-1000-average-1601-1625 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/precios-medios-de-las-dotes-estimadas-en-la-baja-extremadura-reales-de-vellon-constantes-base-1000-media-1601-1625/ Average estimates of the dowries received by husbands from their wives in Extremadura in the 17th century

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]]> The wife brought to the marriage, either by herself or others on her behalf, a series of assets from the paternal surplus, which constituted the anticipation of a legitimate share received at the time of the creation of a new family. The husband, on the other hand, became the administrator of assets with the obligation to return them to the heirs or the wife herself in the event of divorce. These assets delivered could appear with the estimated price – estimated dowry – or without it, indicating only the description of the assets. As for the estimated dowries, the fluctuations in prices during the century must be taken into account. Therefore, the largest dowries correspond to the deeds involving farmers and graduates; at an intermediate level, although at a considerable distance, are the dowries of cangueros, and the lowest are those of labourers, artisans and service personnel. The goods that appear in them are valued by people who deserve the confidence of the families who subscribe them, as well as citing circumstances for this task, such as the profession (carpenters to evaluate furniture, labourers for the land…). In this sense, the prices granted were not far from the real values, as it must be taken into account that the estimated dowry had the effect of selling the goods to the husband. The overall value, therefore, depended on current circumstances such as the position of the bride among her brothers, the situation of the family at the time of the dowry or the economic level of the groom’s family.

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