Transcription of the will and codicils of Don Baltasar Rodrigo de Balboa Calvillo, a member of the power elite of Huéscar (Granada), made in 1647. Lord of the villas of Cotillas and Casablanca, he was also the High Constable of the said town and a major constable of the Inquisition. From 1635 he headed the entailed estate founded by Rodrigo de Balboa, his fourth grandfather. The text refers to the lawsuit he was involved in over the Cotillas entailed estate. There are indications of a financial nature, especially referring to deeds of obligation and debts contracted. In this sense, the debts he has with his servants and for the value of 2620 masses stand out. There may be a possible case of bastardy. He justifies that a boy and a girl whose upbringing he assumed in Hellín and Murcia are not his children. The two marriages he contracted are specified, alluding to the value of the dowries, the arras and other commitments. He leaves as his heir his only daughter Doña Elvira de Balboa, as well as another possible son or daughter he might have with his second and current wife Doña Pascuala de Villanueva if she were pregnant at the time of his death. He also encloses a codicil in which he states that the post of major constable of the Inquisition, which he holds “for three lives”, should pass to his brother-in-law Don Juan García de Villanueva, his wife’s brother. And for the “third life” of the post he appoints the person his wife designates. Finally, in the codicil he makes some clarifications and additions, especially in relation to the debts contracted with his servants and other bequests made to them.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVII

Scope: Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5707587

Resource type: Historical source

Source: Fernández Valdivieso, José Luis - Girón Pascual, Rafael María: Los Balboa: poder, familia y patrimonio en Huéscar (ss. XVI y XVII). Estudio, organización y descripción del archivo familiar, Huéscar, Asociación Cultural Raigadas, 2012, pp. 97-96

Language: Spanish

Date: 1647

Owner: Francisco García González (Modernalia)

Copyright: Fernández Valdivieso, José Luis - Girón Pascual, Rafael María; Asociación Cultural Raigadas; Fundación Ntra. Sra. del Carmen y Fundación Portillo

Abstract: Example of a will and codicil of a member of the rural power elite in eastern Andalusia in the mid-17th century

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