Family strategies with economic and social purposes. The case of the jurado Martín Gómez de Aragón of Cordoba

Abstract

Fortunately, the topics we usually have about the Spanish Society during the Early Modern Age have been being advanced for the last years by historians. Some of them have the ability and the intelligence to discover the real movement in a world that was less static than we thought. A lot of characters of the third statement (social minorities included) were successful in their pretensions of nobility. For our study, we choose a very important example, the jurado Martín Gómez de Aragón, who employed a strategy for upward mobility. Martín de Aragón was a merchant with a very well-known Jewish origin, a condition that gives more credit to the process of his social climbing.