Saturday, May 29, 2021

The de Leiva Family were Puppets of the Marquis de los Velez

 Y es que Mula no es una excepción en la Castilla medieval , sobre todo durante la centuria del cuatrocientos , en la que los cargos municipales se los reservaba un número reducido de vecinos , normalmente la pequeña nobleza y los cuantiosos , que , poco a poco , irán ascendiendo a la hidalguía ( 101 ) . Todo cambia , aparentemente , hacia 1470 cuando un vecino de la villa llamado Juan de Leiva , posiblemente criado del Marqués de los Vélez , ipidió ! ¿desde el respalda de los Fajardo?, que los oficios se escogieran entre los más capaces de localidad y no entre esa minoría. Se le hizo caso «e desde alli adelante se hiço asi» (1.02) . A partir de este momento se puede empezar a rastrear la injerencia de las Marqueses en el equilibrio de fuerzas, pues roto el orden anterior, pronto comienzan a capar el Ayuntamiento, coma se ha visto en el anterior apartado, y a designar alcaldes mayores. Mula na es, en absoluta, un caso aislada. Hay en día se sabe que las luchas de bandos, hasta ahora estudiadas mayoritariamente por lös medievalistas, prosiguen a la largo de la Edad Moderna en gran parte de los municipios del Reino de Murcia, y terminan con las enfrentamientos políticas del sigla XIX (103).

And it is that Mula is not an exception in medieval Castile, especially during the four hundredth century, in which municipal offices were reserved for a small number of residents, usually the petty nobility and large numbers, who, little by little, they will rise to the nobility (101). Everything changes, apparently, around 1470 when a neighbor of the town named Juan de Leiva, possibly a servant of the Marqués de los Vélez, asked! From the backing of the Fajardos? That the trades were chosen among the most capable of the locality and not among that minority. He paid attention to him "and from then on it was done like this" (1.02). From this moment on, the interference of the Marquis in the balance of forces can begin to be traced, since once the previous order has been broken, they soon begin to cover up the City Council, as has been seen in the previous section, and to appoint mayors. Mula na is, absolutely, an isolated case. Today it is known that the fights of sides, until now studied mainly by the medievalists, continue throughout the Modern Age in a large part of the municipalities of the Kingdom of Murcia, and end with the political confrontations of the 19th century (103) .



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