La hidalguía universal

Abstract

The recognition in 1527 by the King of all the Bizkaians and Gipuzkoans, separately, were noble, which was later to be known as universal nobility, poses to basic questions: its functioning and the political effects that are derived from such a recognition. The juridical complexity of the concept, which is diverse in the doctrine and throughout its evolution time contrasts with the simplicity of the facts, which are to be inscribed in the long process, the origins of which are in the 12th century and which is to be perfected in the three Basque provinces as a whole in the early 19th century. The theory of the historical agreement with the crown is to be based on it all.