Profesionales liberales - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:15:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Profesionales liberales - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Level of wealth of the bourgeoisie of León, 18th-19th centuries https://historylab.es/level-of-wealth-of-the-bourgeoisie-of-leon-18th-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=level-of-wealth-of-the-bourgeoisie-of-leon-18th-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/nivel-patrimonial-de-la-burguesia-de-leon-siglos-xviii-xix/ Resource that shows the patrimonial level of the different bourgeoisies of the city of León between the Ancien Régime and the consolidation of the liberal State

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]]> During the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, different bourgeoisies developed in the city of León according to their professional specialisation: the commercial, financial, administrative and liberal professions bourgeoisie. The average wealth of all of them was 504,000 reals; 464,000 liquid if we discount debts and liabilities. However, there were large differences between sectors. The 3 families of the financial bourgeoisie, with an average of 893,883 reais, had 8 times more wealth than the bourgeoisie associated with the liberal professions: 116,489 reais on average for 9 families. The margins are completed with an average of 463,980 and 216,669 reais for the commercial and administrative bourgeoisie, respectively. In comparative methodology, the León bourgeoisie had lower values than those of Valencia, Cadiz or Vitoria, due to a less powerful domestic market than the port market.

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]]> Economic reproduction of bourgeois families in León, 18th-19th centuries https://historylab.es/economic-reproduction-of-bourgeois-families-in-leon-18th-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-reproduction-of-bourgeois-families-in-leon-18th-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/reproduccion-economica-de-las-familias-burguesas-de-leon-siglos-xviii-xix/ Resource that shows the economic contribution of the bride and groom to marriage as a technique of social and material reproduction of the León bourgeoisie in the 18th century and first half of the 19th century

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]]> One of the most effective reproduction strategies of social groups was marriage. A good marriage could mean consolidation within a group, or promotion. The bourgeois families of the city of León were no strangers to the reality of their time. The resource shows the different average contribution of the spouses according to the sector to which they belonged within the bourgeoisie: commercial, financial, administrative or liberal professions. Overall, the average contribution of the spouses exceeded 200,000 reals, reaching 1,462,001 in the case of the financiers. The spouses brought most of their assets to the marriage, except in the case of liberal professionals. These well-matched couples saw their wealth increase not only with the marriage itself, but also with the commercial performance of their businesses. In fact, contributions to the marriage represented an average of 25.8% of their total wealth. Did second marriages follow the same trends? In this case, imbalances were observed in favour of the husband (if the wife was a widow or younger than the husband) or the wife (if the widow had younger children and owned a business).

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]]> Transmission of the patrimonial assets of the León bourgeoisie, 18th and 19th centuries https://historylab.es/transmission-of-the-patrimonial-assets-of-the-leon-bourgeoisie-18th-and-19th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=transmission-of-the-patrimonial-assets-of-the-leon-bourgeoisie-18th-and-19th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/transmision-de-los-bienes-patrimoniales-de-la-burguesia-leonesa-siglos-xviii-y-xix/ Table showing the mentality of social reproduction through the distribution of property through inheritance in the city of León. The profiles dealt with are the bourgeoisie in its facets of merchants, administrators and liberal professionals during the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century

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]]> Marriage contributions and the transmission of wealth through inheritance were the two main methods of perpetuating the family in the social group and promoting its promotion if conditions were favourable. This resource deals with the latter aspect: the transmission of the patrimonial assets of bourgeois families in the city of León between the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. The bourgeoisies that the authors deal with are the commercial, administrative and liberal professionals. Together, the distribution of inheritances followed the Castilian system of inheritance; egalitarian. The liberal professional sector reproduced it in this way. However, within the Castilian framework, there was also the possibility of empowering an heir through the tercio de mejora and the quinto de libre disposición. Thus, the administrative bourgeoisie opted for the joint improvement of the third and fifth to one of the scions, leaving the total of the legitimate inheritance at 92.1%. The merchants followed the same trend, but with more attenuated values (95.6% of legitimate shares). In short, the distributions were fairly equitable in quantitative terms, but not in terms of the quality of the inheritance, because although the value tended to be the same, the business and the house went to a single first-born male.

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