Patronato - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Patronato - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Nov Rec. Lib. I Tit. XVII Act XII https://historylab.es/nov-rec-lib-i-tit-xvii-act-xii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nov-rec-lib-i-tit-xvii-act-xii Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/nov-rec-lib-i-tit-xvii-ley-xii/ Fragment of text in which Philip III reaffirms his jursidiction on royal patronage

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]]> The royal patronage was the way the monarchs chose the ecclesiastical personnel. The division between the temporal and spiritual concepts is fundamental to understanding the procedure of royal patronage. The kings would try to assert the temporal sphere, which was theirs, as opposed to the spiritual, which belonged to the pope. The tendency to reaffirm royal patronage was promoted by the Catholic Monarchs, continued by the Habsburgs and strengthened with the arrival of the Bourbons. Through royal patronage, the monarch proposed ecclesiastical personnel to the pope, but it was the pope who had to give his approval (normally the pope agreed to the king’s proposals). Thanks to the royal patronage, the monarchs were able to articulate personnel attached to the state, often making these religious almost functionaries of the king, something which obviously generated suspicion in the ranks of the ecclesiastics who saw it as intrusiveness.

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]]> Will of Juan Martínez de la Iglesia with the foundation of a lay patronage (1712) https://historylab.es/will-of-juan-martinez-de-la-iglesia-with-the-foundation-of-a-lay-patronage-1712/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-of-juan-martinez-de-la-iglesia-with-the-foundation-of-a-lay-patronage-1712 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:16 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/testamento-de-juan-martinez-de-la-iglesia-con-fundacion-de-un-patronato-de-legos-1712/ Will with the foundation of a trust reflecting family mentality and interests

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]]> Testamentary deeds are a privileged source of information on the Ancien Régime. In this specific case, we are dealing with the will of Juan Martínez de la Iglesia, made in 1712. Martínez de la Iglesia was a priest and commissioner of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the town of El Bonillo (Albacete). The first testamentary mandates, oriented towards Catholic spiritual devotion, reflect the mentality of the time. Subsequently, he took stock of his movable and immovable assets, bequeathing them to his nieces (remember that ecclesiastics, being subject to celibacy, were not allowed to have children). Finally, for the economic well-being of the family, the priest founded a patronage of laymen to ensure a fixed income for those who owned it. What did the patronages consist of? They were a perpetual foundation whereby the founder segregated certain assets from his patrimony. The annual income from these assets, such as rents, was used to pay for masses for the founder’s soul and for the upkeep of the patronage’s administrator. In this specific case, the patronage is supported by the office of an ensign of the neighbouring town of Munera, a census, some country houses and a mill. With this patrimony, which could not be sold or disposed of as it was linked to the patronage, the perpetual performance of 12 annual masses was ensured. The example shown offers numerous possibilities for analysis of a spiritual, patrimonial and family nature, of reproduction and social mobility, of the system of transmission of inheritances, etc.

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