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From: Marin-Guzman <>
Subject: Re: La Cerda
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 22:57:47 +1100
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Behetria is a name of Greek origin and means "a group of freemen who do not
wish to be ruled by an overlord".

The origins of "behetrias" was in Castile due to the discord over elections
of governors and counts.

From those days certain families believed it was their inalienable right to
choose their lord.

Tributes, that were actually paid, were often seen as voluntary and not
obligatory.

These people reached quite substantial numbers and as a result created a
disorder unacceptable to the monarch.

Although many kings attempted to establish some order by creating a "Libro
de Behetrias", the only one to succesfully carry it off was the "Libro de
Behetrias" of Pedro I of Castile, with the agreement of the - "cortes de
Valladolid" - in the year 1351.

I'm quite surprised people studying Spanish medieval genealogy haven't heard
of it.

I hope this helps.



Pedro

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> From: "LUIS K. W. " <>
> Organization: T. M. S. Lda
> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 22:26:01 GMT
> Subject: Re: La Cerda
>
> Maria Emma, (castillian/english)
>
>
> De que Pedro I (autor del Libro de Behetrias) estamos hablando?
> Lo de Castilla?
> What Pedro Ist (author of the Book of Behetrias) are we talking about? The
> one from Castilla?
>
> La mayor parte de las personas en la lista PORTUGAL-L nunca havia oido
> hablar de behetrias.
> Y en Espana?
> Most of the list members of the PORTUGAL-L never heard about Behetrias
> before. How is it in Spain?
>
> Luis K W
> Lisboa-Portugal
> -----------------------
> maria emma escobar <> wrote
>> Yes. Alfonso de la Cerda had a daughter named Ines ,
>> who married Fernando Rodriguez de Villalobos. Fernando
>> died on 1.350-51, victim of the "peste negra" (black
>> plague?) They had some siblings, but they died too,
>> all before 1.355,except one: Branca.
>> Ines wrote her last will and say all their
>> descendents are dead and only is alive her daughter
>> Branca, who is paralysed and had not and will have not
>> siblings. For that reason, Ines left his palace to the
>> nuns and founded a monastery in the town of
>> Villalobos, which still exist. Fernando and Inés are
>> buried in its chapel. All of that is published in the
>> "Colección diplomática del monasterio de santa Clara
>> de Villalobos."
>> I explain about their descendants because a lot of
>> families in Spain say they come from Inés and Fernando
>> and this is a mistake. This Fernando had a cousin
>> named Fernando Rodríguez de Villalobos too, and is
>> this one who appear in the "Libro de behetrias" of
>> Pedro I.
>>

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