Elite Hidalga y poder señorial en Galicia: principales mecanismos de acceso (1480-1650)

Abstract

Manor was in Early Modern Galicia, just like in the rest of the kingdom of Castile, a basic cell of everyday good-fellowship in local communities, and a delimited territory under a lord’s jurisdiction, who was the receiver of incomes and powers that helped to strengthen its power on a local scale. Taking the demonstrated fact about the great abundance of hidalgos in the little lords and very little ones as a starting point, we analyze in this work the strategies that they used for acquiring one manor, and the tensions and disputes that were generated by this process besides, during the Sixteenth and the first mid-Seventeenth centuries.