The last 'corregidores' and alcaldes mayores in Catalonia, 1823-1836
Abstract
This study shows the changes in the territorial administration of Catalonia during the final crisis of the Old Regime and the absolute monarchy. A biographic overview of its owners, the corregidores and alcaldes mayores, is carried out, and the vicissitudes of the system in the peninsular domain of the Hispanic Monarchy where the greatest tensions were recorded are narrated. During the absolutist decade of 1823-1833, the impossibility of maintaining the old mix of justice, administration and military power was evident, so that the monarchy under Isabella immediately would separate those functions and adopt the model devised in the Cortes of Cadiz and developed in the Constitutional Triennium of 1820-1823.
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