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Chriatian Córdoba:
The city and its region in the late Middle Ages

John Edwards


Appendix I

Tables of magistrates and public finances

Table1. Chief magistrates in Córdoba, 1476-1516

1476 Diego de merlo, member of royal council and royal guarda mayor Corregidor
1477 (June-Sep.) Diego de Osorio, royal maestresala (lit. head waiter, a courtier) Pesquisidor
1477 (Sep.) Diego de Merlo Corregidor
1477 (Nov.)-1479 Francisco de Váldes, member of royal household Corregidor
1480 (Jan.) Diego de Proaño, alcalde of the royal household and Court Pesquisidor
1480 (May) Francisco de Valdés Corregidor
1484 (Sep.)-1487 García Fernández Manrique Corregidor
1488 (by July) Francisco de Bobadilla, maestresala, captain of the royal guards Corregidor
1490 (Feb.) Bach. Gonzalo Sánchez de Castro alcalde of the royal household and Court Fuez de Residencia
1494-5 Lic. Juan Fernández de Mora Pesquisidor
1495 (Jan.) Francisco de Bobadilla Corregidor
1497 (Feb.) Alfonso Enríquez Corregidor
1499 (June) Lic. Alvaro de San Estaban Pesquisidor
1499 (Sep.) Alfonso Enríquez Corregidor
1500 (May) Lic. Alvaro de Porras Pesquisidor
1500 (Aug.) Diego López Dávalos Corregidor
1506 (June) Don Pedro Fernández de Córdoba marquis of Priego Alcalde Mayor
1506 (Aug.) Don Diego Osorio Corregidor
1507 (Aug.) Marquis of Priego Alcalde Mayor
1507 (Dec.) Diego López Dávalos Corregidor
1508 (Oct.) Alfonso Enríquez Corregidor
1511 (June) Fernando Duque de Estrada Corregidor
1514 (June) Lic. Diego Ruiz de Briviesca Pesquisidor
1515 (May) Don Antonio de la Cueva Corregidor

Note: Unless otherwise specified, each magistrate's term of office lasted until the next date mentioned on the table.

Sources: RGS 27.6.1477, 3.9.1477, 7.11.1477, 13.1.1480, 2.5.1480, 6.9.1484, 15.7.1488, 12.2.1490, 10.2.1494.
AMC Actas 2.3.1479, 19.1.1495, 11.2.1497, 19.6.1499, 30.9.1499, 30.5.1500, 22.8.1500, 15.6.1506, 19.8.1506, 25.8.1507, 17.12.1507, 13.6.1511, 12.6.1514, 9.5.1515.

Table 2. The municipal accounts of Córdoba, 1452-3

These accounts were produced, at the order of Juan de la Sarte, receptor (receiver) of evidence at the audiencia of Granada, for a hearing of Córdoba's case for the restoration to public control, by the count of Belalcázar, of the dehesa of Madroñiz. The document containing these details was read to Córdoba council on 22 December 1506 (AMC Sec. 12 Ser. 4 No. 14 fols. 342-6v and 352-7).

Accounts for Midsummer 1452 to Midsummer 1453

Income Maravedís
Almojarifazgo of Almodóvar, with Guadarromán and Santadís (?) 800
''                      ''    Posados 3652
''                      ''     Peñaflor 100
Derechos of Moratilla, including both rivers but not the dehesa 1347
Almojarifazgo of Hornachuelos 3125
''                        ''  Villar not known
''                         ''  Belmez, Espiel, Nava de Obejo and El Allozán, occupied by master of Alcántara not collected
Almojarifazgo of Villa Pedroche 5011
''                        ''  Obejo 50
''                         ''  Puente de Alcolea 50
''                        ''  Adamuz and Algallarín 3547
''                        ''   Pedro Abad 200
''                        ''  Montoro 10,824
''                        ''  Aldea del Río 1,612
''                        ''  Bujalance 13,060
Bread-oven in Bujalance 60
Former bread-oven in Bujalance 5
Almojarifazgo of Castro del Río and Castro Viejo 14,500
Charcoal rent, farmed by Gómez Fernández de Santa Eufemia 10,605
Almojarifazgo of Santaella 4,000
''                       ''  La Rambla 17,500
Bread-oven in La Rambla  800
Bread-oven in Santaella 20
Grazing in Santaella 373
Grazing of dehesa of La Parrilla, let to Gonzalo Carrillo, veinticuatro 6,000
Roda of Alnatar, with both its roads 21,746
Dehesa of Los Engeneros 3,648
Income from vacated lands alongside the Guadalquivir, either side of Córdoba, excluding Hornachuelos 1,895
Grazing on the river below Córdoba 250
Half of the dehesa of Villalobillos 5,333
Velas of the countryside around Córdoba 9,800
''           up-river from Córdoba 2,042
''           down-river from Córdoba 1,600
''          of Fuente Objuna 700
''          ''  Pedroche 300
Dehesa of Moratilla 750
''            ''  Algallarín, let out to Jurado Gonzalo Ramíriz 1,500
Dehesas of Madroñiz, El Hinojosa and Torrecatalina. These were occupied by the masterof Alcántara, but Córdoba seized them back, put in Juan Rodríguez de Baeza as fiel, and obtained as rent from the master's tenants 38,830
Fines paid by brokers (corredores) who charged more than six maravedís per thousand as commission 16,906
Penalties under the municipal ordinances 46,000
Rent of the water-carriers (aguadores) 1,700
Media, or tax on linen and coarse woollen cloths (sayales) 100
Duty on meat for the Moorish community 1,000
Poll-tax on the Moors 6,000
Dye-houses of the Aduana, let to Gonzalo Díaz de Jerez and Jaime Martín, dyer 900
Houses in the Corredera, let to Juan Rodríguez, wine-skin maker (two sets of houses) 1,350
Houses 'de la Red' 600
Haza de los Barreros, to Luis Mexía 20
Mill at Gahete, to Martín Alonso, citizen of Gahete. Said to be occupied by the master fo Alcántara 10
La casilla (small house) at St. Paul's fountain, to Alonso Méndez 10
Land and fishery at the Arroyo de la Cabrilla 10
Public land enclosed by Torremilano council 10
Total Income 267,466

 
 
Expenditure maravedís
Alfonso del Castillo, veinticuatro, for the journey to Court 5,000
Alvar Sánchez, veinticuatro, for taking a letter 2,376
Salary of the collector (recaudador) Juan Rodríguez 3,000
'Care of the Body of God' 1,066
Salary of 3,000 mrs. and castellanías of 1,00 mrs. for 21 veinticuatros 84,000
Salaries (quitaciones) for Juan Martínez de Argote and Luis Méndez de Sotomayor, lord of El Carpio 6,000
Quitación for Fernando Alonso, veinticuatro 3,000
Gonzalo Sánchez, fiel in charge of the council-house 1,000
Past quitaciones for Pedro de Montemayor, veinticuatro 11,000
Alguacil mayor in charge of the gates 3,250
Two council fiels 5,000
Luis Sánchez, lawyer 2,000
Grant from the council fines to a broker 100
Torches tp light the council-chamber at night 180
Alcaide Juan de Berrio of Adamuz 1,000
Payment by Bartolomé de Briones, farmer of the fines under the ordinances, towards a bill of 120,000 for damage to a bishop's house 1,000
Gonozalo de Córdoba, for governorship of Almodóvar 2,000
Don Pedro, lord of the house of Aguilar for holding the castle of Hornachuelos, since returned to Córdoba council 50,000
For the men whom Don Pedro led to restore property to Córdoba in February 1453. The money thus used was that collected in rent from the dehesas of Madroñiz, El Hinojosa and Torrecatalina 30,000
To the council property fund 27,465
Furado Bach. Pedro Fernández de Mesa, for taking a message to Baena 200
To the two municipal accountants (contadores), salary of 1,000 mrs. each 2,000
Salary of their escribano 300
Pedro Méndez the younger, salary and quitación as procurador of the council 3,000
Quitación of the escribano del concejo, Gonzalo Rodríguez de Baeza 2,300
Juan González, municipal accountant and auditor 2,000
Marshal Diego Fernández, as alguacil mayor and alférez 8,000
Gómez Fernández de Santa Eufemia, from the charcoal rent 10,705
Total Expenditure 300,942
Deficit on Account for 1452-3 33,476 mrs.

Table 3. Taxation revenue in the diocese of Córdoba

(a) Alcabalas
 
years of tax-farm value in maravedís value in florins
1429 1,952,950 44,385
1430 1,652,952 31,787
1431 1,994,046 38,347
1432-4 1,843,316 35,448
1439 2,634,208 50,657
1440-3 2,876,700 55,321
1444-5 3,326,708 63,975
1446-7 3,140,467 60,393
1448-50 2,384,000 45,846
1451-2 3,383,371 33,833
1453-4 2,908,150 29,081
1455-8 3,100,000 31,000
1459-62 3,362,579* 33,625
1463-5 4,078,500* 40,785
1468-9 4,480,000 29,866
1480 9,303,785 35,108
1481 9,298,543 35,088
1482 9,298,500 35,088
1483 7,508,000 28,332
1484 7,308,000 27,579
1485 7,308,000 27,579
1486 7,737,750 29,199
1487 7,801,500 29,439
1488 7,801,500 29,439
1489 7,803,000 29,445
1490 7,803,000 29,445
1491 8,386,546 31,647
1493 8,593,377 32,427
1494 8,611,225 32,495
1495 9,786,000 36,928
1496 10,106,590 38,138
1499 9,509,500 35,884
1501 10,286,493 38,816
1502 10,841,000 40,909
*Excluding income from señoríos

Note The annual totals set out above, dated according to the different farms which were granted by the Crown, include the four partidos, entitled alhóndiga, rentas mayores, rentas menores and término realengo. In the years 1480-7, the rents of Fuente Obejuna were accounted seperately. they have been included above in the totals for those years.

Sources Ladero, Hacienda real, Tables 1-3. AMC Actas 1.4.1502, 26.3.1505. AMC Sec. 18 Ser. 3 No. 9.

(b) Terias reales,  collected in cash
 
 
Years of tax farm Value in maravedís Value in florins
1429 100,962 2,294
1430 100,962 1,941
1431 111,211 2,138
1432-4 106,988 2,057
1439 126,300 2,428
1440-3 131,621 2,531
1446-7 275,743 5,302
1448-50 275,000 5,288
1451-2 425,000 4,250
1453-4 450,000 4,500
1455-8 543,500 5,435
1459-62 677,500 6,775
1563-5 937,500 9,375
1488 470,500 1,775
1489 470,500 1,775
1490 470,500 1,775
1491 470,500 1,775
1493 520,000 1,962
1494 520,750 1,965
1496 575,645 2,172
1504 2,117,733 7,991
Source Ladero, Hacienda real, Tables 1-3.

(c) Almojarifazgo castellano
 
Years of tax-farm Value in maravedís Value in florins
1428-33 271,906 6,179
1440-3 441,283 8,486
1444-5 882,566 16,972
1448-50 752,669 14,474
1455-8 1,266,666 12,666
1459-62 1,274,583 12,745
1463-7 1,553,466 15,534
1480-2 1,625,000 6,132
1483 1,275,000 4,811
1484-7 1,111,111 4,192
1488-91 1,205,500 4,549
1493-4 1,185,000 4,471
1495-7 1,200,000 4,528
1498-9 1,100,000 4,150
1501-2 1,258,000 4,747
Note these figures are the city only.

Source Ladero, Hacienda real, pp. 129-30

(d) Servicio and montazgo for the Crown of Castile
 
Years of tax-farm Value in maravedís Value in florins
1429-31 834,000 18,954
1432-3 912,237 17,543
1438-41 1,518,750 29,206
1441-4 1,616,975 31,095
1445-8 2,129,888 40,959
1449-52 2,031,250 39,062
1453-4 2,440,683 24,406
1456-61 1,300,000 13,000
1462 1,440,000 14,400
1463-7 2,062,000 20,620
1468-9 2,400,000 16,000
1480-3 4,560,000 17,207
1484-7 5,570,000 21,018
1488-91 5,400,000 20,377
1493-4 5,780,000 21,211
1495-7 6,351,000 23,966
1498 5,453,000 20,577
1499-1501 5,583,000 21,067
1502-3 5,859,000 22,109
1504 5,920,590 22,341
Note: These figures for the whole Crown of Castile illustrate the declining relative importance of this source of revenue.

Source: Ladero, Hacienda real, p. 164.