ARÉVALO DURING THE COMMUNITIES OF CASTILLA THROUGH THE COUNCIL MINUTES

Download cover and index: http://www.publicaciones.uva.es/documentacion/Arévalo_Comunidades_Castilla.pdf The cataloguing and analysis of the oldest book of minutes preserved in the Municipal Archives of the city of Arevalo, written between 1519 and 1523, has allowed us to expand the data hitherto known about the position of this important Castilian town with respect to its negotiations with the Crown. The granting of Arévalo, Madrigal and Olmedo to Queen Germana de Foix, second wife of Ferdinand the Catholic, in contravention of what had been established by the previous queens, together with the rebellion led against this circumstance by the chief accountant Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1516, mark the starting point of the present publication. The decisions of the Arevalo council in parallel to the war of the Communities, the appointment of council positions, the state of the defenses or other aspects such as the urbanization of the suburb in front of the wall and its barbican, the transfer of the town hall or the management of the surveillance of the town and its territory are some of the many topics studied in close relation to the commemorations held in Arevalo last year 2021 in memory of the rebellion of the town as a predecessor of the same unrest that would cause the subsequent communal war in Castile.