Gandía - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 10:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Gandía - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Some documents and private letters that belongs to the sencond duke of Gandía in Joan de Borja. Notes for the history of Alexandre V https://historylab.es/some-documents-and-private-letters-that-belongs-to-the-sencond-duke-of-gandia-in-joan-de-borja-notes-for-the-history-of-alexandre-v/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-documents-and-private-letters-that-belongs-to-the-sencond-duke-of-gandia-in-joan-de-borja-notes-for-the-history-of-alexandre-v Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/alguns-documents-i-curtes-privades-quepertanyeren-al-segon-duc-de-gandia-en-joan-de-borja-notes-per-a-la-historia-dalexandre-v/ Point one of the marriage contracts between Duke Joan III and Joan of Aragon and Gurrea, which emphasises the importance of the integrity of the entailed estate

The post Some documents and private letters that belongs to the sencond duke of Gandía in Joan de Borja. Notes for the history of Alexandre V first appeared on History Lab.

]]> The importance of this text lies in the fact that it represents from the primary source the importance given to the entailed estate. The entailed an estate was a group of goods that constituted the patrimony normally created by the nobility and accredited before a notary. It was an indivisible group that sought to maintain the lineage in perpetuity. It was normally assigned to the first-born male. However, the casuistry was extended and regulated in the Laws of Toro in 1505. Most of a nobleman’s property was normally integrated in the estate, but some could be reserved for the second-born of the family. Indeed, as it was indivisible, it passed entirely to the first-born, so that the younger siblings did not have such a guaranteed future as the first-born. For this reason, the nobility tried to place these second-born children in the church and other institutions in order to give them a stable future.

The post Some documents and private letters that belongs to the sencond duke of Gandía in Joan de Borja. Notes for the history of Alexandre V first appeared on History Lab.

]]>