Repoblación - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 10:56:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Repoblación - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Town Charter of Anna in 1611 https://historylab.es/town-charter-of-anna-in-1611/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=town-charter-of-anna-in-1611 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/carta-puebla-de-anna-en-1611/ Part of the Carta Puebla of Anna of 1611 in which the properties of the new settlers are distributed

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]]> The expulsion of the Moors in 1609-1614 mainly affected the Valencian nobility, who tried to compensate for this human loss with new repopulators of Old Christians. The cartas pueblas were documents that established the privileges and properties of the new settlers who settled in the new lands. In this case, not only the land and the type of cultivation imposed were distributed, but also a part of the harvest was granted, given the poverty of the settlers. In many cases, the lords also offered farming tools so that the settlers could start to generate yields. However, in many cases, such as the present one, the conditions for repopulation were harsh and the charters had to be reconsidered, as well as agreeing to concordats, in which some points were modified in order to ensure that the lordship was not abandoned.

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]]> Correspondence sent by the Duke of Lerma to the Aragonese Council in 1609 https://historylab.es/correspondence-sent-by-the-duke-of-lerma-to-the-aragonese-council-in-1609/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=correspondence-sent-by-the-duke-of-lerma-to-the-aragonese-council-in-1609 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/correspondencia-enviada-por-el-duque-de-lerma-al-consejo-aragones-en-1609/ Written statement by the Duke of Lerma presenting his uncertainties regarding the expulsion of the Moors

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]]> The expulsion of the Moors from Spain was an operation designed more for political purposes than with the consequences of this titanic operation in mind. The signing of a humiliating truce with the United Provinces forced the monarchy to save face, the Moorish question being a propitious opportunity. It seemed at last that the monarch was aware of the potential danger of this population (despite the fact that the Ottomans no longer had any appetite for the western Mediterranean as early as 1580). The expulsion was at the same time an opportunity for the Valencian lords, who for centuries had been receiving static rents that had not kept pace with the rise in prices resulting from the influx of precious metals from the Indies. The opportunity to put an end to the emphyteutic contracts and gain access to other more advantageous types of contracts such as leases were some of the reasons for the nobility’s collaboration in agreeing to the expulsion of their Moorish subjects. The idea was that the territories would be repopulated with Old Christians brought from other regions. However, the results were catastrophic. Only the great nobles were somehow able to make up for the Moorish loss. For the rest, not as many repopulators arrived, nor were they all interested in settling under the new conditions. Some of the nobility were ruined within a few years, because they had already had an unbridled standard of living with the Moorish presence and were carrying huge debts. With the expulsion of the Moors, not only were they unable to repay their debts, but they could no longer even support themselves due to the depopulation of their lands.

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]]> AHN: Councils. 22.243/4, fí° 73 v°-74 r https://historylab.es/ahn-councils-22-243-4-fi-73-v-74-r/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ahn-councils-22-243-4-fi-73-v-74-r Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/ahn-consejos-22-243-4-fi-73-v-74-r/ Fragment of text in which the problem of dealing with crops such as rice due to the lack of knowledge of resettlers is raised

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]]> The repopulation that took place after the expulsion of the Moors posed many problems that were difficult to solve. The situation of this marginalised population before the expulsion was that of an overpopulation on which enormous taxes were levied. In such a way that, in order to pay them, they were forced to do strenuous work that still did not allow them to improve their standard of living, entering into a dynamic of proletarianisation as Fernand Braudel put it. The saying attributed to this population that said they lived as Christians, but paid as Moors, was therefore true. The truth is that, in order to survive, the Moors had to cultivate different types of cereals and rice was one of them. Their expulsion was not met with the same volume of population. But to this we had to add that with the Moors had disappeared the great experience in different types of cultivation that the repopulators did not know. Crops such as rice, apart from having a bad reputation due to the diseases it caused (malaria), demanded an effort that the repopulators were not prepared to make.

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