La cofradía de nobles caballeros de Santiago de Soria (1572): un intento frustrado de corporativismo nobiliar

Abstract

En 1572 tiene lugar en Soria el intento de un sector de la nobleza local por reencontrar sus signos de identidad y solidaridad grupal, a través de la fundación de una cofradía nobiliar, restringida y elitista. El hecho, aunque apoyado en una Real Cédula de Felipe II, chocará con fuertes resistencias al exclusivismo corporativo. Los no incluidos exigirán un procedimiento selectivo menos riguroso que de cabida a los cambios sociales que ya venían siendo asimilados en otros terrenos.

In 1572 a section of the local nobility in Soria makes an attempt to recover their identity signs and solidarity as a group. To achieve that, they found a restricted brotherhood of nobles. This foundation was supported by a royal letter patent of Philip the Second, but it will fight against strong opposition because of the exclusive character or the corporation. Those nobles who were not included will ask for a less severe selective procedure, in accordance with the social changes that had already been assimilated in other spheres.