Un paterfamilias en la corte de Felipe IV: fray Antonio de Sotomayor

Abstract

This article aims to study the role of Friar Antonio de Sotomayor, dominican, Philip IV’s confessor and general inquisitor as a paterfamilias for his lineage. His activity is a good example of the nepotism, which was practised by many members of the ecclesiastical elites in the Early Modern Spain, the same way as his position as a paterfamilias, looking after the perpetuation of the family patrimony.