Herencia - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Herencia - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Typology of the family in the province of León in the middle of the 18th century https://historylab.es/typology-of-the-family-in-the-province-of-leon-in-the-middle-of-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=typology-of-the-family-in-the-province-of-leon-in-the-middle-of-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipologia-de-la-familia-en-la-provincia-de-leon-a-mediados-del-siglo-xviii/ Table analysing the different family models in the province of León in the mid-18th century according to factors related to the geographical environment and the socio-economic structure

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]]> The author gives us the structure of the family in the province of León according to the Catastro de la Ensenada (1752-1754). By areas, the rural world, represented by the counties linked to agrarian models, the nuclear family was hegemonic, with values far higher than in the urban world. These values are attenuated in mountain areas for the nuclear model, in contrast with the growth of the solitary household, reaching levels of 22.7%. In the rest of the province, the number of single people was between 15% and 13%, with Cea-Campos standing out for its low number of single people: 6.7%. The extended household, made up of direct family additions to the nuclear household, was the third most widespread typology, but with more modest values. It stood out in the counties and villages with the lowest percentage of nuclear families; similarly, the multiple household, almost absent, had a greater impact in mountainous areas: Ancares (3.3%) and Montaña (6.4%), and was the protagonist of the rural elites as a compensatory family strategy in the distribution of inheritance.

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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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