Ciudad de León - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:14 +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 Ciudad de León - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Level of wealth of the bourgeoisie of León, 18th-19th centuries https://historylab.es/level-of-wealth-of-the-bourgeoisie-of-leon-18th-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=level-of-wealth-of-the-bourgeoisie-of-leon-18th-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/nivel-patrimonial-de-la-burguesia-de-leon-siglos-xviii-xix/ 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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]]> 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.

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]]> Economic reproduction of bourgeois families in León, 18th-19th centuries https://historylab.es/economic-reproduction-of-bourgeois-families-in-leon-18th-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-reproduction-of-bourgeois-families-in-leon-18th-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/reproduccion-economica-de-las-familias-burguesas-de-leon-siglos-xviii-xix/ Resource that shows the economic contribution of the bride and groom to marriage as a technique of social and material reproduction of the León bourgeoisie in the 18th century and first half of the 19th century

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]]> One of the most effective reproduction strategies of social groups was marriage. A good marriage could mean consolidation within a group, or promotion. The bourgeois families of the city of León were no strangers to the reality of their time. The resource shows the different average contribution of the spouses according to the sector to which they belonged within the bourgeoisie: commercial, financial, administrative or liberal professions. Overall, the average contribution of the spouses exceeded 200,000 reals, reaching 1,462,001 in the case of the financiers. The spouses brought most of their assets to the marriage, except in the case of liberal professionals. These well-matched couples saw their wealth increase not only with the marriage itself, but also with the commercial performance of their businesses. In fact, contributions to the marriage represented an average of 25.8% of their total wealth. Did second marriages follow the same trends? In this case, imbalances were observed in favour of the husband (if the wife was a widow or younger than the husband) or the wife (if the widow had younger children and owned a business).

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]]> Transmission of the patrimonial assets of the León bourgeoisie, 18th and 19th centuries https://historylab.es/transmission-of-the-patrimonial-assets-of-the-leon-bourgeoisie-18th-and-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transmission-of-the-patrimonial-assets-of-the-leon-bourgeoisie-18th-and-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/transmision-de-los-bienes-patrimoniales-de-la-burguesia-leonesa-siglos-xviii-y-xix/ Table showing the mentality of social reproduction through the distribution of property through inheritance in the city of León. The profiles dealt with are the bourgeoisie in its facets of merchants, administrators and liberal professionals during the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century

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]]> Marriage contributions and the transmission of wealth through inheritance were the two main methods of perpetuating the family in the social group and promoting its promotion if conditions were favourable. This resource deals with the latter aspect: the transmission of the patrimonial assets of bourgeois families in the city of León between the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. The bourgeoisies that the authors deal with are the commercial, administrative and liberal professionals. Together, the distribution of inheritances followed the Castilian system of inheritance; egalitarian. The liberal professional sector reproduced it in this way. However, within the Castilian framework, there was also the possibility of empowering an heir through the tercio de mejora and the quinto de libre disposición. Thus, the administrative bourgeoisie opted for the joint improvement of the third and fifth to one of the scions, leaving the total of the legitimate inheritance at 92.1%. The merchants followed the same trend, but with more attenuated values (95.6% of legitimate shares). In short, the distributions were fairly equitable in quantitative terms, but not in terms of the quality of the inheritance, because although the value tended to be the same, the business and the house went to a single first-born male.

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]]> Revenues from the provincial revenues of the city of León in 1757 https://historylab.es/revenues-from-the-provincial-revenues-of-the-city-of-leon-in-1757/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revenues-from-the-provincial-revenues-of-the-city-of-leon-in-1757 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/ingresos-de-las-rentas-provinciales-de-la-ciudad-de-leon-en-1757/ Resource that deals with the different concepts that fed the provincial revenues, taxing shops, goods and products of the city of León

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]]> The provincial rentas provinciales of the hull of the city of León were a type of rentas ordinarias; taxes levied on a permanent basis on a regular basis. This means that the provincial rentas were an aggregate of previously independent rentas, such as alcabalas, tercias, millones and cientos. In the case of León, in 1757, the author computes a total collection of 491,886 reales. What was the basis for this revenue? Most of it, 47.5%, was basic foodstuffs of modern society: meat, wine and brandy. Within meat, the most heavily taxed was pork, which was the most popularly consumed. On the other hand, beef, demanded by the wealthier social groups, was more protected from taxation. By individual products, wine was the most heavily taxed, with up to 33.3% of the revenue coming from the fluid product; a sum of 163,456 reais. Other events, such as fairs and markets, also provided a large part of the revenue with 116,844 reales, or 23.8% of the total. The typology of income shows the products and marketing systems that existed in the centre of the city of León and which served to increase the income of the provincial revenues, revenues which, as a whole, accounted for almost 45% of the net income of the monarchy in the 18th century.

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]]> Expenditure of the provincial revenue of the city of León in 1757 https://historylab.es/expenditure-of-the-provincial-revenue-of-the-city-of-leon-in-1757/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=expenditure-of-the-provincial-revenue-of-the-city-of-leon-in-1757 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/gastos-de-las-rentas-provinciales-de-la-ciudad-de-leon-en-1757/ Table showing the expenditure of the provincial revenue of the city of León in 1757. On the one hand, for the General Treasury and, on the other hand, to pay the collectors and managers of this provincial revenue

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]]> The provincial revenues, a set of independent aggregates such as the alcabalas, millones, tercias and cientos, were one of the main sources of revenue for the administration. In the case of the provincial revenues of the city of León, the income was accompanied by the corresponding expenses. In 1757 these expenses amounted to a total of 484,715 reales out of a revenue of 491,886 reales. Most of the expenditure, 71% (344,535 reales) went to the Treasury General of Revenues. The remaining 29% of expenditure was mainly divided between employees’ salaries (15.3%), loans to individuals (6.7%), and repairs (1.7%). The employees constituted a socio-professional category of their own, being the persons directly employed by the administrators of the revenues and the officials who were responsible for the management of the revenues. Also included are the intendant, with an allocation of 3,000 reales, and the four deputies elected by the parish residents, with 500 reales each. As a whole, the expenses were oriented towards the support of the supra-provincial administration, both in terms of destination and in terms of management and collection.

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]]> Transfer of patrimonial assets by social groups in the province of León (18th century) https://historylab.es/transfer-of-patrimonial-assets-by-social-groups-in-the-province-of-leon-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transfer-of-patrimonial-assets-by-social-groups-in-the-province-of-leon-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/transmision-de-bienes-patrimoniales-por-grupos-sociales-de-la-provincia-de-leon-siglo-xviii/ Distribution of inheritances to see the distribution of inheritances according to social groups, analysing the impact of the legitimate, third of improvement and fifth of free disposal in both rural and urban areas

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]]> In the 18th century, different social groups developed different inheritance behaviours. Although Castilian inheritance legislation tended towards equal distribution, there were improvements that could unbalance the amount of inheritance. In El Bierzo, in the families of the Dones or hidalguía, 85.4% of the assets were distributed equally in legitimate, being the improvements of Tercio and Quinto, separately, 0.4% and 0.2% respectively. It was common for both improvements to be combined into one, in what is known as “mejora del tercio y quinto” where, in this case, the percentage rose to 14%. This means that the nobility tended to favour a single member of the family. On the other hand, the bourgeoisie showed heterogeneous behaviour. In El Bierzo, the improvement of the Quinto surpassed that of the Tercio and the Conjuntas, but not the administrative bourgeoisie of the city of León, where the Quinto and the Conjuntas were comparable. The peasantry, together with the commercial bourgeoisie and, above all, the liberal professions, in the city of León, had the highest rate of legitimacy with 93.4%, 95.6% and 100%. The mentality and the patrimonial development of the families was, therefore, very much conditioned by the inheritance: the higher the percentage of legitimate, the greater the egalitarian distribution, while the higher the convergence of the Tercio and the Quinto, the greater the empowerment of one heir over the others.

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]]> The amount of inheritances destined for religious purposes. Sahagún and the city of León in the 18th century https://historylab.es/the-amount-of-inheritances-destined-for-religious-purposes-sahagun-and-the-city-of-leon-in-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-amount-of-inheritances-destined-for-religious-purposes-sahagun-and-the-city-of-leon-in-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cantidad-de-las-herencias-destinadas-a-la-religiosidad-sahagun-y-la-ciudad-de-leon-en-el-siglo-xviii/ Amount destined to the salvation of the soul in wills as a reflection of religiosity in the urban world of the city of León and in the rural world of Sahagún

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]]> Resource oriented to the analysis of the expenses that were made, within the wills, for the burial, funeral and the salvation of the soul of the deceased. These items came out of the fifth of free disposal. The author investigates these deductions by means of the percentage that these expenses represented with respect to the inheritance received by their children. At first, it is noticed that the higher the legitimate, the lower the funeral expenses would be in relation to it. The group of merchants and financiers in the city of León showed the average legitimate per child to be 134,295 reales, with the average funeral expenses being 5,530 (1%). This figure was 1.8% for the administrative and liberal professions bourgeoisie. Finally, the peasantry, with the amount of legitimate patrimony they had at their disposal, the deduction for religiosity was 10%. Thus, the most precarious family economies saw how these expenses affected to a greater extent their capacity for social reproduction and the forging of new family nuclei.

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