The emergence of female viceregal power in the face of death: the case of Catalina de Giudice y de la Sierra, marchioness of Cayro and vicereine of Navarre (1765-1770)
Abstract
The vicereine consorts, because they had not been assigned to the position, did not have associated duties and powers. However, they practiced an informal power of representation. Baroque funeral celebrations, scenes full of theatricality in which the force of the symbolic reached its maximum expression, were a key place for the exercise of figurative power by the vicereines. Through a comparison with the royal funerals held in Navarra and other examples of funerals of viceroys and vicereines, the funerals of the Navarrese viceroys, Marquises of Cayro, are analyzed. The active participation of Catalina María Peregrina de Giudice y de la Sierra in the funeral of her husband, Luis Carlos Antonio González de Albelda y Cayro, and the testamentary opinions surrounding her own death tell us about a vicereine who, despite her condition as a consort, he had an active role in the human and political government of the navarrese viceroyalty in the mid-18th century.
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