Metadata: Municipal Archive of Mayorga
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Mayorga
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo Municipal de Mayorga
- Postal address:
- Plaza de España 1. 47680 – Mayorga
- Phone number:
- +34 983 751 003
- Email:
- ayuntamiento@mayorga.gob.es
- Reference number:
- ES.47084.AM/1
- Title:
- Municipal Archive of Mayorga
- Title (official language):
- Archivo Municipal de Mayorga
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town council of Mayorga
- Date(s):
- 1257/2004
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Latin
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 59.75 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The documentary fonds of the Municipal Archive of Mayorga contains documentation dated between the thirteen and twentieth centuries. This collection is based on the medieval documentation preserved in the archive. It contains documents related to the government of the town, such as the town council Minutes, account books, and lawsuits.
Concerning Jews, information is mainly preserved in the "Gobierno” (Government) section. In 1453, the Jews of Mayorga contributed to the works of the town’s wall. There are also data on the occupations of the Jews (silversmiths, shoemakers, tailors, and fur workers) and businesses such as the farming of local and regional taxes. Most of the taxes were appraised on basic products such as cloth, mud, stone, straw, firewood, salt and linseed. For example, Semuel Labança rented the rents of salt and linseed (1431) and straw and firewood (1436), products levied by the royal tax of “alcabala,” and he bid for the income of Valmadrigal and his party (1436).
Some Hebrew signatures are preserved in the documents.
- Archival history:
- The documentary fonds of the Municipal Archive of Mayorga was organized in 1999 under the “Programa Provincial de Organizacion de Archivos Municipales”. In 2006, its inventory was updated through the same program.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Juan I granted the town of Mayorga with the title of count to Pedro Nuñez de Lara, then to Juan Alonso Tello de Meneses, and finally, to his second son, the infant Don Fernando. During the reign of Enrique III, in 1393 Don Fadrique, count of Benavente, occupied the town. Don Fernando de Antequera acquired it shortly after, and gave it to his sons, the Infants of Aragon. Juan II confiscated the villa from the Infants and gave it to Rodrigo Alonso Pimentel, Count of Benavente. During the War of Castilian Succession, the Portuguese conquered Mayorga in 1476. Once the Castilian army recovered it, the town returned to the dominion of the Count of Benavente.
- 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).
- Links to finding aids:
- https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html
- Yerusha Network member:
- Spanish National Research Council
- Author of the description:
- Marina Girona Berenguer; ILC, CSIC; April 2020
