Señoríos, señores y pecheros en la Navarra moderna

Abstract

A mediaeval heritage, the feudal regime, with its peculiar form of articulating social relations, continued in Navarre during the Modern-age centuries, although it did experience is slow and gradual decadence up to its abolition in the 19th century. During the 18th century, due to the sale of jurisdictions carried out by the monarchy in order to raise funds for its always exhausted treasuries, the feudal regime also experienced in Navarre a certain revitalisation, within the framework of what certain historians have called the refeudalization. In the Old Kingdom, the seignory did not have much relevance since, on the whole, at the end of the 18th century it hardly represented 17% of its extension. In comparison with House Seignories, whether Lord was also the owner of the land, there was a predominance of the jurisdictional type of seignory.