Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 The Kingdom of Granada. Based on Manuel de Terán Geografia regional de España (Barcelona 1968)
- Map 2a The City of Granada (NW). Drawn by the architect Ambrosio de Vico (1596)
- Map 2b The City of Granada (SE). Drawn by the architect Ambrosio de Vico (1596)
- Introduction
- 1 Knights and citizens
- 2 Nobles of the doubloon
- 3 Lords of Granada
- 4 The web of inheritance
- 5 The network of marriage
- 6 Blood wedding
- 7 Cradle of the citizen
- 8 The shadow of the ancestors
- 9 The spirit of the clan
- 10 The law of honour
- 11 Good Commonwealth men
- 12 Defenders of the Fatherland
- 13 Conclusion
- Genealogical tables
- Bibliography
- Index
- NEW STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
5 - The network of marriage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 The Kingdom of Granada. Based on Manuel de Terán Geografia regional de España (Barcelona 1968)
- Map 2a The City of Granada (NW). Drawn by the architect Ambrosio de Vico (1596)
- Map 2b The City of Granada (SE). Drawn by the architect Ambrosio de Vico (1596)
- Introduction
- 1 Knights and citizens
- 2 Nobles of the doubloon
- 3 Lords of Granada
- 4 The web of inheritance
- 5 The network of marriage
- 6 Blood wedding
- 7 Cradle of the citizen
- 8 The shadow of the ancestors
- 9 The spirit of the clan
- 10 The law of honour
- 11 Good Commonwealth men
- 12 Defenders of the Fatherland
- 13 Conclusion
- Genealogical tables
- Bibliography
- Index
- NEW STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Summary
In 1654 the barrister Antonio Ruiz de Salcedo, son of a man who had come from his native Baza to Granada to serve as accountant of the Resettlement Junta, acquired the old veinticuatría of Mateo de Lisón y Biedma. In 1662 he consolidated his position as one of the ruling elite of the city by marrying Lorenza, daughter of the jurado Felipe López de Zúñiga, who had made his fortune in the silk trade. Antonio's father turned over to his son at the wedding some vineyards and grain land which he had bought in 1636 in the Vega of Granada and two cortijos in the grain-rich Montes, together with a wayside inn nearby. He also purchased for Antonio a collection of books on law. The bride brought as her dowry a newly built mansion in the increasingly fashionable parish of San Justo, together with furnishings like the bed with its drapes of velvet and damask, valued at 3,500 reales (more than the 2,800 at which the eleven-year-old slave girl was priced), and a carriage drawn by two mules, worth 7,000. The whole dowry was estimated at 13,000 ducats, nearly a half of it in cash. It had been 16,000 ducats which the previous holder of the Ruiz de Salcedo veinticuatría, Lisón y Biedma, was promised at his marriage to the daughter of Alonso de Contreras, alderman of Motril, in 1601, including some familiar items: the marriage bed of damask, valued at 4,000 reales (and which was in pawn for debt at Lisón's death forty years later!), and an eighteen-year-old Berber slave girl and an eleven-year-old slave boy valued together at the same price as the bed.
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- Family and Community in Early Modern SpainThe Citizens of Granada, 1570–1739, pp. 99 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007