Deudas e indemnizaciones. Aspectos negativos de la herencia de los primeros condes de Ureña

Abstract

The wills constitute an interesting source to know the altitudes and individual behaviours, as is observed upon analyzing the testament of the Master of Calatrava Don Pedro Girón, and above all the obligations and compensations that his heirs and very especially the Second Count of Ureña, Don Juan Téllez Girón, had to face. He had to pay the large debts contracted by his father, that we can classify at three levels: individual debts, such as the compensation to Juana González at Almagro; debts entailed to the foundation of the posito of Jaén; debts due to the execution of testamentary dispositions that ordered the foundation of a chaplaincy at Belmonte.