The crisis of the lordship financial system: the example of the Cenete Marquisate

Abstract

After the conquest of the Nazarean Kingdom of Granada, the lordships that came into the scene were mainly populated by moorish. Their condition of minority on the fringe resulted in their undergoing an economic extorsion on the part of the nobles, which made the richer beyond the linits, allowed in the prerogatives sanctioned in the donation titles. However, after the expulsion of 1571 and the subsequent repopulation, the firm intervention of the Crown prevented the landlords from enjoying extraordinary rent, mainly because it did its best to direct the taxes of the new inhabitants towards the crown's treasury. This paper can be said to illustrate the bad ways used by the landlords of the Cenete Marquisate in order to obtain a substantial wealth and the dramatically different situation after the Repopulation when the incomes were distributed in faily more appropriate way.