Cortes valencianas - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 10:55:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Cortes valencianas - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Philip III’s words about Alicante https://historylab.es/philip-iiis-words-about-alicante/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=philip-iiis-words-about-alicante Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/palabras-de-felipe-iii-sobre-alicante/ Statements made by Philip III during the Cortes of Valencia in which he emphasises the importance of Alicante

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]]> According to María Asunción Rogles Hernández, the city of Alicante gradually became a city of reference in Mediterranean trade from the mid-17th and 18th centuries onwards. In addition, it was characterised by a powerful agricultural sector which was also commercialised, taking advantage of the city’s privileged location in the Mediterranean context. Added to this was the ease with which the city of Alicante could communicate with Castile and the interior, something that was achieved by roads that did not have major orographic obstacles. This led Philip III to reaffirm its importance in the Valencian Cortes held in 1601. His words can be placed in the context prior to the Moorish expulsion, where a possible invasion from Istanbul or Algiers continued to be a cause for concern

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]]> Valencian Cortes of 1626 https://historylab.es/valencian-cortes-of-1626/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=valencian-cortes-of-1626 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cortes-valencianas-de-1626/ Declaration in the Valencian courts of 1626 requesting the maintenance of the Alfonsino charter after the population decline caused by the expulsion of the Moors

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]]> The Alfonsine charter originated in the 14th century, when it was institutionalised by Alfonso II of Valencia. The aim of the Alfonsine charter was to encourage repopulation in the context of the Christian conquest, so that anyone who managed to gather 15 Christian houses with a criminal discharge (Primitivo Pla Alberola) was encouraged to do so. With this privilege, many territories in the Valencian area were populated, and it was also an opportunity for a person who had not been a nobleman to become a lord of that territory. The expulsion of the Moors in 1609 posed a major problem, mainly because in many cases, the lords no longer had 15 houses, so they could no longer formally enjoy the advantages of the Alfonsino privilege. To this end, during the Valencian courts of 1626, the lords asked for the privilege to be maintained as an exception to the drastic demographic decline caused by the Moorish expulsion.

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