Ducado de Maqueda
Item
Country
ES
Name of institution (English)
Historical Archive of the Nobility
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
spa
Contact information: postal address
Calle Duque de Lerma 2, 45003 Toledo
Contact information: phone number
0034 925210354
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
nobleza@cultura.gob.es
Reference number
ES. 45168. AHNOB
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Duchy of Maqueda
Title (official language of the state)
Ducado de Maqueda
Language of title
spa
Creator / accumulator
Duchy of Baena
Duchy of Maqueda
Date(s)
1242/1867
Language(s)
spa
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
The collection of the Archive of the Duchy of Baena is an interesting family archive, which preserves documents belonging to different aristocratic titles and families and covers extensive geographical areas, from the Andalusian lordships of Cabra and Iznajar to the Italian territories belonging to the Sessa and Terranova titles.
This fifth section of the archive, entitled Ducado de Maqueda (BAENA,F.5), contains documents from the following aristocratic titles (BAENA,F.5,SF.1-11): Duchy of Maqueda, Marquessate of Elche, Duchy of Aveiro, Duchy of Najera, Marquessate of Belmonte de la Vega Real, Lordship of Aldabon, Lordship of Campilla and Monasterio, Lordship of San Silvestre, Lordship of Torrijos, Lordship of Taha, Lordship of Riaza, Duchy of Arcos.
The documents are classified in several series according to their type:
1) Genealogy, noble titles and entailed estate (“mayorazgo”).
2) Nobiliary jurisdiction: This series gathers all the documents generated or related to the exercise of nobiliary jurisdiction: granting of lordships or jurisdictional rights and the transfers, agreements, and lawsuits over them; support of the seigniories to the Crown of Castile, especially in military matters; and jurisdiction over vassals in aspects of government, justice, and taxation.
3) Estate: It contains all the documents related to the familial estate and its administration: managing of assets, domain transfers, delimitation, and increase or decrease of patrimony (through dowries, marital capitulations, etc.). It is, together with the section of estate administration, the largest documentary series and occupies a large part of the collection.
4) Estate administration: This series includes those documents generated or received by the administration of the estate: maintenance and use of properties, estate inventories, accounting, and payment of taxes. Documents produced by the archival activity are also included in this series. The documentation, which occupies a huge volume, is organized by manorial administrations with geographical criteria and deals with correspondence between the administrators and the head of general administration, accountability, and expenses. Otherwise, the documentation produced by the general administration itself includes sumptuary and household expenses, in addition to the record books.
5) Private: This series contains the personal files of each of the family members: for example, work-related, academic, and professional documents and non-hereditary appointments and honors such as decorations, membership in associations and Military Orders, and appointments for offices and positions. Documents produced for familial celebrations and social meetings are included.
6) Staff: tasks performed.
7) Board of pious works (documents related to charitable works and expenses related to religious worship).
8) Collections.
Concerning Jews, the Duchy of Maqueda subsection contains, among other documents, a deed of sale of a land plot granted by Abraham Abençahal, from Maqueda, in favor of the Lord of Maqueda (1488); another document refers to the assumption of ownership of the castle and town and the Jewish Aljama of Maqueda (Toledo) by Don Alvaro de Luna (1434).
The Marquessate of Elche section includes long-lease rental (censo) issued in 1498 by the Lord of Elche together with the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Aspe, Crevillente and Elche.
This fifth section of the archive, entitled Ducado de Maqueda (BAENA,F.5), contains documents from the following aristocratic titles (BAENA,F.5,SF.1-11): Duchy of Maqueda, Marquessate of Elche, Duchy of Aveiro, Duchy of Najera, Marquessate of Belmonte de la Vega Real, Lordship of Aldabon, Lordship of Campilla and Monasterio, Lordship of San Silvestre, Lordship of Torrijos, Lordship of Taha, Lordship of Riaza, Duchy of Arcos.
The documents are classified in several series according to their type:
1) Genealogy, noble titles and entailed estate (“mayorazgo”).
2) Nobiliary jurisdiction: This series gathers all the documents generated or related to the exercise of nobiliary jurisdiction: granting of lordships or jurisdictional rights and the transfers, agreements, and lawsuits over them; support of the seigniories to the Crown of Castile, especially in military matters; and jurisdiction over vassals in aspects of government, justice, and taxation.
3) Estate: It contains all the documents related to the familial estate and its administration: managing of assets, domain transfers, delimitation, and increase or decrease of patrimony (through dowries, marital capitulations, etc.). It is, together with the section of estate administration, the largest documentary series and occupies a large part of the collection.
4) Estate administration: This series includes those documents generated or received by the administration of the estate: maintenance and use of properties, estate inventories, accounting, and payment of taxes. Documents produced by the archival activity are also included in this series. The documentation, which occupies a huge volume, is organized by manorial administrations with geographical criteria and deals with correspondence between the administrators and the head of general administration, accountability, and expenses. Otherwise, the documentation produced by the general administration itself includes sumptuary and household expenses, in addition to the record books.
5) Private: This series contains the personal files of each of the family members: for example, work-related, academic, and professional documents and non-hereditary appointments and honors such as decorations, membership in associations and Military Orders, and appointments for offices and positions. Documents produced for familial celebrations and social meetings are included.
6) Staff: tasks performed.
7) Board of pious works (documents related to charitable works and expenses related to religious worship).
8) Collections.
Concerning Jews, the Duchy of Maqueda subsection contains, among other documents, a deed of sale of a land plot granted by Abraham Abençahal, from Maqueda, in favor of the Lord of Maqueda (1488); another document refers to the assumption of ownership of the castle and town and the Jewish Aljama of Maqueda (Toledo) by Don Alvaro de Luna (1434).
The Marquessate of Elche section includes long-lease rental (censo) issued in 1498 by the Lord of Elche together with the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Aspe, Crevillente and Elche.
Archival history
The Duchy of Maqueda was granted in 1530 to Diego de Cardenas Enriquez, Lord of Maqueda. To this title were added the Duchy of Aveyro (1650), Duchy of Najera (1580) and Marquessate of Elche (1520). In 1666, after the marriage between Maria Guadalupe Lancaster Cardenas Manrique, IX Duchess of Maqueda, and Manuel Ponce de Leon, VI Duke of Arcos, the title entered the House of Arcos. In 1781, all these titles were incorporated into the House of Baena in the person of Vicente Joaquin Osorio de Moscoso Guzman, XI Duke of Baena, XI Count of Altamira, XIV Duke of Maqueda.
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1530, the title of Duchy of Maqueda was granted by Emperor Charles to Diego Cardenas y Enriquez, Lord of Cardenas, Maqueda, Torrijos, Crevillente and Elche, Primer Adelantado Mayor of the Kingdom of Granada, Alcaide of La Mota and the Alcazares de Segovia.
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System of arrangement
This documentary division is classified thusly: 6.5 Maqueda, ducado de, 1242-1867; 6.5.1 Elche, marquesado de, 1460-1900; 6.5.2 Aveiro, ducado de, 1700-1713; 6.5.3 Najera, ducado de, 1476-1857; 6.5.4 Belmonte de la Vega Real, marquesado de; 6.5.5 Aldabon, señorio de, s.f.; 6.5.6 Campilla y Monasterio, señoríos de; 6.5.7 San Silvestre, señorio de, 1459-1727; 6.5.8 Torrijos, señoriode, 1344-1789; 6.5.9 Taha, señorio de la, 1515; 6.5.10 Riaza, señorio de, 1304-1757; 6.5.11 Arcos, ducado de, 1486-1792.
Access, restrictions
Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
Finding aids
Data on the collection are also available at the website of the Spanish National Archives (PARES).
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