La hacienda y la política matrimonial de un panadero del siglo XVII

Abstract

From the perspective of the studies on craftsmen and current people, they present the results of an investigation on the matrimonial strategies and, in general, the constitution of the patrimony of a court baker in Madrid during the first half of the 17th century. There is in use documentation of diverse files (parochial, notarial protocols, of the Villa and of the Sala de Alcaldes de Casa y Corte) to be interlacing the biographical effects with the economic ones. From his first marriage in 1622 up to his death in 1643, during these twenty years, Juan Palanca, a French emigrant of the Gascony, constitutes an estimable estate. At the end of his life, still a young man, father of three children, he had in property two houses and a workroom of bakery that the first born inherited.