Las corporaciones de caballeros hidalgos en las ciudades castellanas a fines de la Edad Media. Su participación en el ejercicio del poder local

Abstract

The author gives account of the existence in many Castilian towns during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of associations of noble urban knights, that played an important role in the regulation of the access to the exercise of power in the local scene. He analyses the way some of these associations were organised. Then he gives account of the fact that in many Castilian towns the privileged state of the urban nobles sent deputies to the assemblies of the town council. And finally he pays attention to the role played by some ot these associations of urban nobles in the election of several officers of local government, as, for example, the "regidores" (aldermen) and the Parliament deputies.