Estado liberal - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:06:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Estado liberal - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Adaptation strategies of the nobility: the Fernández de Córdoba family (15th-19th centuries) https://historylab.es/adaptation-strategies-of-the-nobility-the-fernandez-de-cordoba-family-15th-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adaptation-strategies-of-the-nobility-the-fernandez-de-cordoba-family-15th-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/estrategias-de-adaptacion-de-la-nobleza-los-fernandez-de-cordoba-siglos-xv-xix/ The resource shows the evolution of the Fernández de Córdoba lineage in the high administration of the monarchy. Over the centuries, they went through different stages, from a great influence in the 15th century, a decline with the arrival of the Bourbons in the 18th century and finally their reconversion into parliamentary deputies in the 19th century

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]]> The aristocratic elites sought to perpetuate themselves in power from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. The lineage of the Fernández de Córdoba, with almost 50 families, is an example of the strategies they articulated in order to maintain or increase their status. The resource shows the main positions in the high administration held by this lineage over 5 centuries. From the 15th to the 18th century, they predominated in the Councils (in a range of 72.2% at the beginning of modernity and 42.2% in the following century). In the 18th century, as the author points out, in absolute terms, the weight of this lineage in the administration declined as a result of the arrival of the Bourbons to the Spanish throne. The Bourbons displaced the traditional elites and placed the like-minded in an exercise of political control. The Fernández de Córdoba family arrived in the 19th century weakened but, with the new winds of change, they were able to adapt to the period of transition between the Old Regime and the New Liberal State; 51.4% of the lineage’s political posts were concentrated in the positions of senators and deputies. Not only were they oriented towards high administration, this lineage also proliferated in the local elite and in the clergy; forms of social reproduction based on marriages with strong families and on avoiding the atomisation of property during its hereditary transmission.

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