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Queen Margaret’s livery expenses (1600-1611)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:56 +0000

From the time of Isabella of Valois, the stables acquired an important place in the royal households, as it was the section responsible for the public representation of the monarch or queen. It became their representative vehicle, and its organisational model evolved from the chivalric and medieval court to the courtly court. In 1599 Margaret of Austria-Styria married Philip III, son of Philip II. From then on, the stables of the new queen played a prominent role within the royal household with a large and specialised department, although less so than that of her royal husband. The resource deals with the expenses of Queen Margaret’s stable between 1600 and 1611, the year of her death. With an approximate expenditure of 17,625,000 maravedies in 1601, the main items were for dresses, carriages, provisions, salaries and ordinary and extraordinary expenses. After this first year, both the budget and expenditure increased, reaching its highest point in 1607. The growth of ordinary expenditure was exponential, while that for medicines and horseshoes remained constant throughout his reign. Salaries also increased in direct proportion to the number of courtiers and servants who staffed the queen’s stables. Extraordinary expenditure was, by its very nature, the one that showed the most ups and downs, decreasing when all the others were increasing.

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Expenditure of the Royal Household of Philip III in 1601

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000

On 13 September 1598 Philip III, son of Philip II, acceded to the throne of the Hispanic Monarchy. As an institution within the monarchy, the Royal House had an economic allocation, more or less variable due to the lack of stable sources of funding. And where there is funding there is expenditure. The resource deals with what and how much the Royal House of Philip III spent in 1601; expenditure controlled and agreed with the Cortes of Castile. The data, reflected in maravedíes, show that the main item was ordinary and extraordinary expenditure, ranging from maintaining part of the troops to promoting the Crusade. 40,500,000 maravedis were used to pay the expenses (salaries) of the chapel and guard, plus a further 24,500,000 maravedis for the expenses of the royal houses. The sum of the items shows that the greatest economic expenditure was for the payment of troops, guards, stewards and servants, leaving 36,000 ducats a year for carriages; 13,500,000 maravedis.

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Silver coin issues in the Crown of Aragon (1601-1700)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000

For the Crown of Aragon, made up of the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia and the principality of Catalonia, the issue of silver coins was one of the main concerns of the monetary economy. If during the 16th century the weight of the Valencian dieciocheno had to be reduced so as not to exceed its legal tender value and thus avoid its export, the 17th century saw similar measures for the Catalan “croat” and real and the Valencian dieciocheno itself. In the first case, the 3.12 grams that the croat had weighed since 1493 was reduced in 1619 to 3.04 grams, reaching 2.81 grams in 1653. The Catalan real fell from 2.5 grams to 2.04 between 1674 and 1698. For its part, the Valencian silver coin ended the century at 1.87 grams, almost half the 3 grams it weighed in 1480. However, the Aragonese real remained at a fixed weight of 3.42 for more than a century: from 1519 to 1652. All these adjustments were carried out as reforms aimed at readjusting the silver to the fleece.

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