Sociedad y territorio en el norte de León: Valdoré, los Flaínez y el entorno del alto Esla (siglos IX-XI)

Abstract

Valdoré, in the upper Esla region, is one of the first documented territories of the Duero basin. In 854 there took place a presura that marks, at least from what we know from the charters, the moment in which it first became part of the astur-leonese kingdom. Later, from the end of the 10th century onwards, the Flaínez, one of the most important aristocratic groups of the kingdom, started acting very intensely within this territory, which was finally brought under their dominion. The object of this article is to study the regional context of the upper Esla, the development of the aristocratic group of the Flaínez, and Valdoré itself, in order to understand how this territory was integrated into the structures of power of theastur-leonese kingdom and how that affected the structure of the local society that inhabited it.