Financieros judíos en la primera época de la repoblación del reino de Sevilla: La crisis del realengo en el concejo de Niebla (1262-1368)

Abstract

When Alphonsus X conquered Niebla in 1262 and initiated the settlement of the area. Niebla became a royal town and the capital of the Andalusian Algarve. The problems that arose in Andalusia in the century that followed (1262-1368), particularly those that stemmed from the fact that it was a frontier ares, were especially evident in Niebla, where the town had to resist numerous attempts by the nobles who tried to wrest it from royal control. This resistance was finally overcome in 1368, mainly because of the enormous financial difficulties of the town council, which were created to no small extent by the Jews, who, in this first century of resettlement in Andalusia, controlled the financial activity in the Kingdom of Seville.