Consanguinidad - History Lab

Inbred Marriages in Potes and Liébana (1600-1850)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:03 +0000

Emigration in Liébana had a direct effect not only on its demographic density, but also on the marriage patterns of the town. According to the sources, it can be concluded that the social relations of the people of Liébana were restricted almost exclusively to their own community, with more than two thirds of the inhabitants marrying people from their own parish, 87% if we extend this to marriages between individuals from the same valley and 95% if we include the whole region. In Potes, on the contrary, during the 17th century only half of the marriage registers show that both partners were born and resided there.
Over the years, kinship increased the ties of neighbourhood, to the point that in very small parishes they became almost as close as the closest blood relationship. Nevertheless, the figures for endogamous marriages began to fall with the beginning of the 18th century in both places (Liébana being higher at all times), stabilising between 25% and 35% from the middle of the 18th century until the middle of the 19th century.

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Evolution of consanguineous marriages over the total in Asturias between 1701 and 1900

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000

As can be seen in the graph, the author compiles the sacramental marriage certificates to establish the number of marriages by blood that took place in Asturias through the study of the degrees of filiation of the spouses. The graph shows how this type of marriage increases during the 18th century, decreases at the beginning of the 19th century and increases again from 1871 onwards, reaching its maximum at the end of the century. The growth trend of consanguineous marriages is similar in other parts of Spain and Catholic Europe.

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Evolution of consanguineous marriages according to the degree of kinship in Asturias (1701-1900)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000

Consanguineous marriages have different degrees according to their kinship. At the beginning of the 18th century, marriages between more distant degrees were the most common within this filiation; however, the historical evolution in Asturias shows how at the end of the 19th century there was a rapprochement between marriages of higher and lower degrees of kinship. Although the number of marriages between blood relations decreased, the number of marriages of higher kinship, 1st and 2nd, increased.

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