Matrimonio - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:55:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Matrimonio - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Marriage contract of Antonio María de Munibe Aréizaga and Josefa Joaquina de Aranguren Álava https://historylab.es/marriage-contract-of-antonio-maria-de-munibe-areizaga-and-josefa-joaquina-de-aranguren-alava/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marriage-contract-of-antonio-maria-de-munibe-areizaga-and-josefa-joaquina-de-aranguren-alava Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:58 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/contrato-matrimonial-de-antonio-maria-de-munibe-areizaga-y-josefa-joaquina-de-aranguren-alava/ Document containing the marriage contract of Antonio María de Munibe Aréizaga and Josefa Joaquina de Aranguren Álava, descendants of two prominent 18th century families of the Royal Bascongada Society of Friends of the Country.

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]]> The social behaviour of the Basque families most closely linked to the Court and to the political, economic and cultural activities of the Age of Enlightenment followed very marked patterns. In this sense, the marriage policy of these families was determined by the linking of their members with each other, as the case of the Munibe-Aranguren-Álava families demonstrates. These three families were closely linked to the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País and the projects derived from it. In this context, the three families became linked by marriage, thus consolidating their relationships and family strategies.

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]]> Marriage contract between Don Francisco Javier María de Munibe and Doña María Josefa de Areizaga https://historylab.es/marriage-contract-between-don-francisco-javier-maria-de-munibe-and-dona-maria-josefa-de-areizaga/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marriage-contract-between-don-francisco-javier-maria-de-munibe-and-dona-maria-josefa-de-areizaga Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/contrato-matrimonial-de-don-francisco-javier-maria-de-munibe-y-dona-maria-josefa-de-areizaga/ Document containing the marriage contract between Francisco Javier María de Munibe, 10th Count of Peñaflorida, and María Josefa de Areizaga

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]]> The document contains family information on Xavier María de Munibe, 10th Count of Peñaflorida, Director and founder of the Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del País. The marriage between the Munibe and Areizaga families united two of the main families in Gipuzkoa that were related to the northern families that were notably connected to the Court throughout the 18th century.

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]]> Wedding Arnolfini https://historylab.es/wedding-arnolfini/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wedding-arnolfini Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/matrimonio-arnolfini/ Power elites

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]]> Portrait of Jan van Eyck, a key figure of the so-called Flemish Primitives. It portrays an Italian couple living in the Netherlands. He was a prominent merchant. Full of symbolism alluding to marital fidelity and the young wife’s state of good hope. It is an icon of Western painting

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]]> Proportions of Unmarried Women by Age and Date, 1787 https://historylab.es/proportions-of-unmarried-women-by-age-and-date-1787/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proportions-of-unmarried-women-by-age-and-date-1787 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/proporciones-de-mujeres-solteras-por-edad-y-fecha-1787/ Proportion of married women in rural and urban settings in 1787

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]]> Nuptiality is a demographic variable of great importance that has often been neglected in favour of the study of mortality or fertility. Its significance as a reproductive institution obtains a relevant meaning where fertility control within marriage is null or moderate. In this sense, it is necessary to specify how marriage is one of the most determining vital acts in the social sphere. In traditional societies, marriage practice was mediated by access to land, inheritance or some other significant form of livelihood. Looking at marital engagement behaviour, it is very similar between rural and urban areas at younger ages; at older ages, urban areas show important differences in the proportion of unmarried women. However, the mean age at marriage in 1787 is substantially the same in rural and urban areas, slightly higher for urban males (25.6 vs. 25.1) and slightly lower for urban females (23.2 vs. 23.8)

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]]> The age of marriage of women in 18th century Spain. A regional overview https://historylab.es/the-age-of-marriage-of-women-in-18th-century-spain-a-regional-overview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-age-of-marriage-of-women-in-18th-century-spain-a-regional-overview Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-edad-del-matrimonio-de-las-mujeres-en-la-espana-del-siglo-xviii-una-panoramica-regional/ Balance of the age of entry into marriage in the different regions of Spain showing a clear contrast between the north and the south

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]]> In 18th century Spain, women married on average at the age of 23 and men at the age of 25, as corroborated by the Floridablanca Census of 1787. These ages are lower than in Europe, where it was common for women to marry between 25 and 28 and men between 27 and 30. Even so, however, there was a tendency for first marriages to be later than in previous centuries. This trend, however, was not uniform, but seems to have followed a south/north-northwest upward direction, which confirms the existence of an unequal regional reality that we cannot fail to point out. According to Pérez Moreda (1988), in 1787 the first marriages of women in Extremadura were at 21.9 years of age, those in Andalusia at 22.3; those in Valencia at 22.7; those in Castilla La Nueva at 23.4; Castilla la Vieja, 23.7; León, 24.2; Galicia 25.3 and the Basque Country 26.1. Uneven behaviour for which it is not easy to find unicausal explanations. Rather, it is necessary to take into account a variety of factors that to a greater or lesser extent influence marital behaviour: living conditions, work possibilities, economic opportunities, the existence of complementary activities and levels of pluriactivity, the weight of migratory movements, the form of access to resources -and especially to the exploitation of land-, inheritance law, custom, inheritance practices, cultural aspects linked to the medieval past, the logic of family systems, social differences, marital strategies and other mechanisms of social reproduction.

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]]> Fragment of the genealogy of the Gálvez de Antequera family (18th century) https://historylab.es/fragment-of-the-genealogy-of-the-galvez-de-antequera-family-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fragment-of-the-genealogy-of-the-galvez-de-antequera-family-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/fragmento-de-la-genealogia-de-los-galvez-de-antequera-siglo-xviii/ Fragment of the genealogy of the Gálvez family, based in Antequera, in the 18th century.

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]]> In this fragment of the genealogy of the Gálvez family, based in Antequera since the end of the 17th century, we can observe the intergenerational transmission of the craftsman’s trade ascribed to the surname, in this case, circumscribed to goldsmith work. It should be pointed out that, despite the stereotyping of craftsmanship, we do not always find a transmission as accentuated as that visible in the case of the Gálvez family, so that, although some families did operate under these reproductive criteria, we cannot generalise without first contextualising the economic and social environment in which it took place.

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]]> Genealogy of noblemen: the Corro Bustamante family – Auñón de Alcaraz (Albacete) in the 1730s https://historylab.es/genealogy-of-noblemen-the-corro-bustamante-family-aunon-de-alcaraz-albacete-in-the-1730s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=genealogy-of-noblemen-the-corro-bustamante-family-aunon-de-alcaraz-albacete-in-the-1730s Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/genealogia-de-hidalgos-la-familia-corro-bustamante-aunon-de-alcaraz-albacete-en-la-decada-de-1730/ Genealogy hidalgos as a reflection of social reproduction

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]]> Marriage relations between different families obeyed reproduction strategies based on the concentration and accumulation of patrimony. Among the nobility, it was common to carry out similar operations in search of material benefit. The town of Alcaraz was no stranger to these mentalities and two of its most important families, the Corro Bustamante and the Auñón, joined together. This union came about through a double marriage: two sons and two daughters forged matrimonial bonds that would bear fruit 13 years later when one of them, Juan Manuel, monopolised most of the properties when his brother died without offspring. Juan Manuel also inherited from his mother-in-law all the bonds and free property that she had at her disposal. In this way the patrimony and status of both families was perpetuated, even more so in the accumulation by one of the sons.

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]]> Servants and the average age of women at marriage in the Crown of Castile in 1787 https://historylab.es/servants-and-the-average-age-of-women-at-marriage-in-the-crown-of-castile-in-1787/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=servants-and-the-average-age-of-women-at-marriage-in-the-crown-of-castile-in-1787 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/criados-y-edad-media-de-la-mujer-al-matrimonio-en-la-corona-de-castilla-en-1787/ Contrasts between North and South Castilian between the number of servants and the age at which women enter into marriage

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]]> The graph shows that among men there was no direct connection between access to marriage and the abandonment of servant work. The three provinces with the highest number of servants (Madrid without the capital, Toledo and Albacete) show how the age of access to marriage is among the lowest in Castile, only surpassed by Ciudad Real, Extremadura, Andalusia and Murcia. The latter had the lowest percentage of servants; a fact that put it in line with the central and northern regions of the peninsula. Of all of them, Galicia, Asturias, León and Burgos stood out for having few servants and a high rate of marriage access (over 24 years of age). The demography, socio-economic structure and life cycles are reflected and differentiated geographically in this graph.

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]]> Genealogy of a family of bureaucrats: the Asenjo de Alcaraz family (1688-1814) https://historylab.es/genealogy-of-a-family-of-bureaucrats-the-asenjo-de-alcaraz-family-1688-1814/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=genealogy-of-a-family-of-bureaucrats-the-asenjo-de-alcaraz-family-1688-1814 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/genealogia-de-una-familia-de-burocratas-la-familia-asenjo-de-alcaraz-1688-1814/ Family tree of a family with bureaucratic and administrative offices in Alcaraz (Albacete)

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]]> Enrichment and social advancement were the leitmotiv of many families. Although social mobility was very controlled in the Ancien Régime, it did exist. An example of this is the Asenjo family of Alcaraz (Albacete). The genealogy of this family shows us how marriage strategies, social networks and kinship helped to achieve patrimony. Beginning with the union of Isabel Galdón, a native of Alcaraz, with Pedro Asenjo, a native of Las Navas del Marqués (Ávila) in 1688, the family created parallel branches that intertwined throughout the 18th century. Pedro Asenjo was notary public of Alcaraz in 1703; his first son Juan was also a notary public, while the second, Pedro, was a clergyman of minors. It was Juan who married into the well-positioned Vargas Machuca family, and by 1753 he had accumulated a large amount of wealth that made him one of the leading cattle ranchers and farmers in the region. Based on their good social and economic status, the Asenjo family’s marriage policies were oriented in three directions: to get closer to public offices and positions; to reinforce those already established within the family; and to place some of their children in the clergy. This last route had a twofold objective: to ensure that the children would pursue a career within a privileged estate and that, with celibacy, the assets of the same would return to the family nucleus, thus concentrating the patrimony once again and avoiding its atomisation.

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]]> Genealogy of the nobility: the Igualada family of Vélez-Málaga (1645-1792) https://historylab.es/genealogy-of-the-nobility-the-igualada-family-of-velez-malaga-1645-1792/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=genealogy-of-the-nobility-the-igualada-family-of-velez-malaga-1645-1792 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/genealogia-de-la-nobleza-la-familia-igualada-de-velez-malaga-1645-1792/ Genealogy of the Igualada family from the mid 17th century to the end of the 18th century

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]]> Genealogy of a family belonging to the local elite of Vélez-Málaga, what some authors have called urban nobility, essentially characterised by their lack of titles but being considered as such in their locality, as well as for being intermediaries between the royal power and their subjects. The Igualadas occupied regidurias in the Municipal Council from the end of the 17th century, gaining access to the post by purchase and carrying out consolidation strategies through marriage links with the families of their fellow councillors or titled nobility, which can be clearly seen in the family tree.

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