A Typology of Stately Rents and Structure of Andalusian Manorial Estates in the Early Modern Age: The House of the Adelantados of Andalusia

Abstract

This essay aims to analyse the manorial estate of the House of the Enríquez de Ribera family, adelantados of Andalusia. The study of the manorial estate of the adelantados of Andalusia necessarily requires of the analysis of the account book of income of the year 1543, where every rent collected by the Marquesses of Tarifa in each of their villas is recorded individually. This important documentary source affords research in both tax typology (land rents, almojarifazgos, and monopolies), as well as each of the mayordomías, or administrative fiscal districts from which the Enríquez de Ribera extracted their rental revenue, which developed under a process of expansion and diversification of their sources of income, and as part of the consolidation of the power base that the aristocracy maintained in the Castilian and Andalusian area during the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age.