Metadata: Duchy of Infantado (1.7)
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archive of the Nobility
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo Historico de la Nobleza
- Postal address:
- Calle Duque de Lerma 2. 45003 – Toledo
- Phone number:
- +34 925 210 354
- Email:
- nobleza@cultura.gob.es
- Reference number:
- ES.45168.AHNOB/1
- Title:
- Duchy of Infantado (1.7)
- Title (official language):
- Duchado del Infantado (1.7)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Duchy of Osuna; Duchy of Infantado
- Date(s):
- 943/1917
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Extent:
- 1,855 boxes; 40 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The Archive of the Dukes of Osuna is composed of seven different archives gathered together through the accumulation of titles by the Tellez Giron family, especially during the eighteenth century. This group of documentary fonds is the largest in the Historical Archive of the Nobility and the most important aristocratic archive in Spain regarding information about medieval Jews. It has 7,581 boxes, which contain abundant and varied information on topics and places in Spain in addition to many other territories and countries, due to the power that this family accumulated over time. It is a relevant collection for the history of Spain from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries.
This seventh section of the collection, titled “Ducado de Infantado” (OSUNA,F.7), contains documents from the following noble titles (OSUNA,F.7,SF.1-10): Marquisate of Santillana, Duchy of Pastrana, Marquisate of Cenete and County of the Cid, Marquisate of Mondejar, Marquisate of Tavara, County of Saldaña, County of San Esteban de Gormaz, Lordships of Hoya del Infantado, Lordship of Mendoza, Lordship of Hita.
The documents are classified in several series according to their type:
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 Lordship of Mendoza subsection contains a privilege by Enrique III in favor of the IX Lady of Mendoza, by which he confirms the grant of the poll tax of the Jewish and Muslim Aljamas of Guadalajara (1393). There is also the judgment of the lawsuit between the clergymen of the San Martin de Mendoza Parish (Alava) and Yuçef Enbalid, Yuda Hase and Symuel Enbalid concerning the clergy benefit tax (1389).
The Lordship of Hita subsection contains the record of the devolution of property to conversos from Hita.
The County of San Esteban de Gormaz subsection contains the inventory of Jewish properties in the town of San Martin de Valdeiglesias (1492), as well as an investigation of the assets of the Jews in the same town (1501).
- Archival history:
- At the end of the nineteenth century Don Mariano Tellez Giron, last Duke of Osuna, died, and in 1894, a “Comision Ejecutiva de Obligacionistas” seized all assets of his house, including the archive, to pay off his debts. In 1917, the aforementioned commission deposited the documentary collection in the Spanish National Historical Archive in Madrid. Thanks to the contribution of an anonymous sponsor, the Archive of Osuna was acquired in 1927 by the Spanish State. In 1995, the archive was transferred to the Nobility Section, now the Spanish Historical Archive of the Nobility. In 1998, an additional documentary set was acquired from Duran Auctions, which contained documentation on the Lordship of the towns of Arroyo del Puerco, Talaban, Serrejon, El Bodon and its aggregates; that belonged to the House of Benavente.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1380, Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza and his wife, Aldonza Ayala, established the entailed estate (“mayorazgo”) of the Lordship of Hita and its territory. They added to their entailed estates the town of Real de Manzanares, Colmenar, Galapagar and Guadarrama (1385), and Buitrago, Roblegordo, Somosierra, Palazuelos and Algecilla (1413). Iñigo Lopez de Mendoza, I Marquis of Santillana, integrated Liebana and Santillana, inherited from his mother Leonor de la Vega, and purchased other towns in La Alcarria. In 1475, the Catholic Monarch granted his son, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, II Marquis of Santillana, the title of Duke of the Infantado. Through the marriage of the II Duke of the Infantado with Maria de Luna, Constable Alvaro de Luna’s daughter, the Mendoza family received the County of Luna. Upon the completion of the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara, the bond of the Mendozas to this city was consolidated. In 1534, the Marquisate of the Cenete and the County of the Cid or Jadraque was integrated into the House through the marriage of the Count of Saldaña, first-born of the IV Duke of Infantado, and Maria de Mendoza and Fonseca. In 1614, the marriage of Catalina de Sandoval and Mendoza, VIII Duchess of the Infantado, and the IV Duke of Pastrana integrated the Duchy of Pastrana. Catalina de Sandoval and Mendoza also inherited the Duchy of Lerma. The marriage of Maria Francisca, XI Duchess of the Infantado, and Miguel de Toledo integrated the Marquisate of Tabara, with dominions in the region surrounding Zamora. In 1841, the estate of the Infantado merged into the House of Osuna through the inheritance of the XIII Duke of the Infantado.
- System of arrangement:
- This documentary section is classified thusly: 1.7 Infantado, ducado del, 943-1917; 1.7.1 Santillana, marquesado de, 943-1874; 1.7.2 Pastrana, ducado de, 1215-1853; 1.7.3 Cenete y condado del Cid, marquesado del, 1300-1881; 1.7.4 Mondejar, marquesado de, 1486-1710; 1.7.5 Tavara, marquesado de, 1181-1861; 1.7.6 Saldaña, condado de, 1342-1894; 1.7.7 San Esteban de Gormaz, condado de, 1205-1884; 1.7.8 Hoya del Infantado, señorios de la, 1252-1813; 1.7.9 Mendoza, señorio de, 1341-1845; 1.7.10 Hita, señorio de, 1050-1864.
- 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; May 2020
