Nobleza y fiscalidad en la Ruta de las Indias: el emporio señorial de Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1576-1641)

Abstract

This article studies the influence that a relevant seigneurial emporia, as it was Sanlúcar de Barrameda —residence of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia—, had in the implementation and development of the commercial institutions of the Carrera de Indias. In general terms, we suggest a review of this complex taking into account the difficult praxis of the royal politics in an area as much discontinuous —from the point of view of the jurisdiction— as it was the Lower Andalusia. The period chosen goes from the first royal attempts to inquiry in the South Atlantic commerce, to the fall of the IX duke in 1641 accused of conspiracy.