El Estado y marquesado de Astorgarelaciones de poder, rentas y economía señorial, siglos XVII-XVIII

Abstract

The fundamental objet of this study is to make a valuation of the rents and incomes that Astorga¿s marquis received in the territories of León when they were under his jurisdiction along the Modern Ages. We recovered the annual accounting of Astorga¿s ¿tesorería¿ in the centuries XVII ¿ XVIII. With these documents we could see the sequence of expenditures, incomes and we see basic aspects of the ¿señorial¿ property. We are talking about the fundamental aspects and their evolutions along these two centuries. In the final result we can see the scarce influence of the agrarian incomes in relation of the domain on the land and the hegemonic weight of the alienated incomes to the crown. These alienated incomes guaranteed a regular incomes. All of these and the existence of the ¿mayorazgo¿, allowed that this house where in the aristocrat elite even the century XIX.