Aintzane Sanchez Labaka

Universidad del Páis Vasco (UPV/EHU), Filología e Historia, Faculty Member

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PhD student at the University of the Basque Country working on lordship and nobility in Late Medieval Basque Country. My research focuses on the Hurtado de Mendoza and Rojas families
Supervisors: José Ramón Díaz de Durana Ortiz de Urbina and Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi

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Against lords and Parientes Mayores. Social conflict and resistance in the late medieval Basque Country, junto a Aintzane Sánchez Labaka

by José Ramón Díaz de Durana and Aintzane Sanchez Labaka

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

This work aims to define the structural elements of aristocratic rule, noble lords in Álava and P... more This work aims to define the structural elements of aristocratic rule,
noble lords in Álava and Parientes Mayores (heads of household) in
Guipúzcoa and Biscay, over their lordships and church patronages;
the fiscal and political opposition presented by hidalgos (petty
nobility), peasants, ferrones (metal-industry workers) and
townspeople; and the evolution of the resulting conflict over
time. We also outline the discourses elaborated to legitimise
lordly authority or to reject it, and those mobilised to denounce
the arbitrary fiscal demands of the nobility and conditions of
political exclusion. In order to illustrate this, we examine the rule
of the Rojas and the Hurtado de Mendoza families over the small
towns of Antoñana and Santa Cruz de Campezo, and the
steadfast opposition to this rule from the towns’ residents.

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