El proceso de señorialización de las tierras de Talavera de la Reina en el siglo XV. El caso de Cebolla y los Ayala

Abstract

During the XVth century, some feudal lords who lived in the city in their own interest controlled the Council and owned Talavera de la Reina's best land. In this article, we study the most important domains in the surroundings of this city in minute detail: the state created by the Ayala lineage around Cebolla city and Villalba Castle. Eleven legacies filed in the Frías Ducal Archives enabled me to write the history of this seigniory since it belonged to the Ayala family -that is to say, from the end of the XIVth century- until the forties of the XVIth century, when it definitively becomes integrated into the Oropesa County domains. In the first pare of the article, we study the Ayala seigniorial family until their extinction in 1540 and, in the second part, the rustic patrimony that the lineage gathered during the XVth century. The possessions basically were Cebolla city and Villalba Castle. A lot of urban properties, fields and land estates in some way completed these domains. It is in fact a rich territorial patrimony that allowed its owners to dominate, for the most part, Talavera de la Reina's Council.