Archivo de los Condes de Priego
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: email
nobleza@cultura.gob.es
Reference number
ES.45168.AHNOB//PRIEGO
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Archive of the Counts of Priego
Title (official language of the state)
Archivo de los Condes de Priego
Language of title
spa
Creator / accumulator
County of Priego
Date(s)
1279/1900
Language(s)
spa
Extent
16 boxes, and 3 files
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
The Archive of the Counts of Priego is composed of property titles, royal privileges, and grants related to the various aristocratic titles and entailed estates (“mayorazgos”) located in the current provinces of Cuenca, Teruel, and Castellon and belonging to the Carrillo de Mendoza family. The royal privileges in both Castile and Aragon are numerous. There is also documentation related to ecclesiastical patronage and pious works sponsored by the family. A set of 14 “privilegios rodados” stands out.
The documentary fonds contains the archives, or in some cases significant documentation, of the following titles (PRIEGO,F.1-5): County of Priego, Mendoza, family, Duchy of Canzano, Lordship of Ventosa, Barony of Santa Croche and Gaibiel.
1) Genealogy, noble titles, and entailed estate (“mayorazgo”).
2) Nobiliary jurisdiction.
3) Estate.
4) Estate administration.
5) Private.
6) Staff.
7) Board of pious works (documents related to charitable works and expenses related to religious worship).
8) Collections.
Concerning Jews, the Mendoza family section contains an order by Juan I to the town council of Molina de Aragon, its territory, and its Jewish Aljama to fulfil the responsibility given to Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza to collect both the sales tax (“alcabalas”) of Molina de Aragon and the poll tax (“cabeza de pecho”) of the Jews (1381). Another privilege of Juan I, which confirms the concession given in 1375 to Aldonza de Ayala, wife of Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, of the poll tax of the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Guadalajara (1379), is preserved. There is also a transfer of the privilege, granted in 1382, by Juan I confirming a concession granted to Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza of an annual amount of the poll tax of the Jewish Aljamas of Madrid, Molina de Aragon, and Vitoria. From 1382, it is ordered that the amounts be taken from the Jewish Aljamas of Toledo and Sevilla (1383). In another privilege, Juan I and his wife Leonor de Aragon confirm and approve the establishment of the entailed estate (“mayorazgo”) that Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza and Aldonza de Ayala, his wife, granted to her son Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza; among the grants, the poll tax of the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Guadalajara stands out (1380). A privilege of Juan II confirms the concession granted to Aldonza de Ayala, wife of Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, of the poll tax of the Muslim and Jewish Aljamas of Guadalajara (1434).
The documentary fonds contains the archives, or in some cases significant documentation, of the following titles (PRIEGO,F.1-5): County of Priego, Mendoza, family, Duchy of Canzano, Lordship of Ventosa, Barony of Santa Croche and Gaibiel.
1) Genealogy, noble titles, and entailed estate (“mayorazgo”).
2) Nobiliary jurisdiction.
3) Estate.
4) Estate administration.
5) Private.
6) Staff.
7) Board of pious works (documents related to charitable works and expenses related to religious worship).
8) Collections.
Concerning Jews, the Mendoza family section contains an order by Juan I to the town council of Molina de Aragon, its territory, and its Jewish Aljama to fulfil the responsibility given to Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza to collect both the sales tax (“alcabalas”) of Molina de Aragon and the poll tax (“cabeza de pecho”) of the Jews (1381). Another privilege of Juan I, which confirms the concession given in 1375 to Aldonza de Ayala, wife of Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, of the poll tax of the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Guadalajara (1379), is preserved. There is also a transfer of the privilege, granted in 1382, by Juan I confirming a concession granted to Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza of an annual amount of the poll tax of the Jewish Aljamas of Madrid, Molina de Aragon, and Vitoria. From 1382, it is ordered that the amounts be taken from the Jewish Aljamas of Toledo and Sevilla (1383). In another privilege, Juan I and his wife Leonor de Aragon confirm and approve the establishment of the entailed estate (“mayorazgo”) that Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza and Aldonza de Ayala, his wife, granted to her son Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza; among the grants, the poll tax of the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Guadalajara stands out (1380). A privilege of Juan II confirms the concession granted to Aldonza de Ayala, wife of Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, of the poll tax of the Muslim and Jewish Aljamas of Guadalajara (1434).
Archival history
This archive was transferred in 1995 from the National Historical Archive to the Nobility Section (Historical Archive of the Nobility).
Administrative / Biographical history
The aristocratic title of Count of Priego was granted in 1465 by Enrique IV to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, husband of Teresa Carrillo, VI Lady of Priego. The Lordship of Priego (Cuenca) had been held by the Carrillo family since the late 13th century. The union with the Mendoza family extended the familial estate and its dominion through the lands of Guadalajara and Molina de Aragon and integrated in the Lordships of Gaibiel and Santa Croce. Successive marriage alliances expanded the familial estate through the lands of Castellon and Teruel. In the 17th century, the title passed into the Fernandez de Cordoba family thanks to the marriage of Maria Sidonia Garces de Marcilla, XIV Countess of Priego, and Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba. At the end of the 18th century, the titles and “mayorazgos” of Priego passed into the Coppola family, of Neapolitan origin.
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System of arrangement
This collection is classified thusly: 86 Priego, archivo de los condes de, 1279-1900; 86.1 Priego, condado de, 1298-1900; 86.2 Mendoza, familia, 1379-1599; 86.3 Canzano, ducado de, 1620-1844; 86.4 Ventosa, señorio de la, 1506-1625; 86.5 Santa Croche and Gaibiel, baronia de, 1279-1831.
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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