Some Points on Territorial Nobility, Councils and Towns by Means of an Example: Cuenca and Huete from the Late 13th Century to the Early 15th Century

Abstract

Currently it is not possible to analyze the councils and the political life of towns in de Castilian Crown dispensing with the territorial nobility that owned lord lands in its surroundings. Therefore, this article’s purpose is the study of the attraction that the urban settlements had for the nobility as well as the processes that allowed them to establish in them. As a result, we can observe how they determined the population politics decisively, the acting of the councils as well as the social basis on which both aspects were based. With this purpose, and with a regional perspective, I will resort to two examples that are sufficiently significant, but at the same time different enough to enrich the comparison.

Keywords

• nobleza
• ciudad
• concejos
• relaciones de poder
• sociedad urbana