The extended royal domestic government in Acalá la real. Agreements of the Royas Council of Castile on municipal houses

Abstract

The Medieval and Modern political-administrative system extended the functioning regime of the basic nucleus of social organisation, the household and the family. The monarchy represented the highest stratum of integration of such structure, so that its extended domestic fabric articulated the territory of the kingdoms. The presence of the Royal Council in the king's domestic sphere gave it an important role in this process, whereby the territory and the decision-making and reserved sphere of the Palace were integrated. In the consultations held with the king by the Council in that space (Consultas de Viernes), stood out those agreements relating to the successive arrangement of material facilities that allowed such an extension of this domestic order. Such as the municipal houses for the meeting of the town council or the residence of the corregidor, as can be clearly seen in the case of the town of Alcalá la Real. Such real estate entities were the recipients of transubstantiated representations of the king that supported the territorial continuity of the Court. Thus, Court and local reality constituted an indistinguishable unity.