Fiscalidad real y municipal en la Mallorca del siglo XV

Abstract

The particular status of the reign of Majorca in the Crown of Aragon, since 1298 until 1343, shows a kind of political duality, with evident financial consequences. Since 1318, Majorca would be mixed to different copies of the mediterranean politics of the Kings of Aragon. She would feel a progressive increase of tax pressure, which would reach one of its highest points around 13 31, precisely when some changes cake place in the economic and demographical conjuncture. The reintegration of the Islands to the Crown of Aragon, ends with an important impoverishment of the royal patrimony. These consequences would affect again on the Municipality of Majorca which would be obliged to assume, on her own, the expenses of exterior politics whose algid points would occur between Genoa, Sardinia and Castilla. The implantation of public debt, a solution to the existing difficulties, appeared by the half of the century, but would not prevent the Municipality from going bankprupt between 1372 and 1405, nor would allow her to avoid her definitive fixation in the fiscal chain of the reign.