Redes sociales - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:55:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Redes sociales - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 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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]]> From outsider to mayor: the network of Don Martín Villaranda García in Bermellar (18th century) https://historylab.es/from-outsider-to-mayor-the-network-of-don-martin-villaranda-garcia-in-bermellar-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-outsider-to-mayor-the-network-of-don-martin-villaranda-garcia-in-bermellar-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/de-forastero-a-alcalde-la-red-de-don-martin-villaranda-garcia-en-bermellar-siglo-xviii/ Network of relationships connecting Martín Villaranda to other individuals according to family, spiritual and executorial ties

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]]> The resource analyses the social impact of Martín Villaranda García as an example of clientelist, family and social reproduction networks. The author investigates Martín’s trajectory since he settled in the municipality of Bermellar (bishopric of Ciudad Rodrigo). There he married María Bogajo and they had 11 children, 8 of whom survived. Of all of them, María’s socially well-positioned father was the godfather of 5; Martín thus reinforced the ties with his father-in-law as a means of penetration and consolidation within society. With the death of Pedro in 1759, Martín saw his possessions increase as he was one of the main heirs. Six years later, in 1764, his wife died and he remarried Rosenda Sánchez Pastor, with whom he had five more children. Martín’s family networks were part of a larger strategy of social reproduction that also included ties of compadrazgo and spiritual ties that helped to underpin his social status (Martín was godfather to 13 children between 1737 and 1762, obtained hidalguía between 1752 and 1757, and was mayor ordinario in 1762 and 1767)

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