La baronia de Serra, Ria i Armell des de l'expulsió morisca fins a la dissolució senyorívola

Abstract

Serra was the first barony to be populated after the Moorish expulsion. This thesis analyses the repopulating process, prosopography of lineages, Viscain immigration, demographic evolution, distribution of lands and houses, agrarian exploitations, tributes, tithes, social life, heritage... The Folch de Cardona family, later Montellano dukes, litigated against the Cardona/Segorbe dukes to maintain the property. The discomfort of the vassals culminated in 1839 with interposition of a popular demand for the reversal of the barony to the Crown, demand which prospered thanks to the goodwill and concessions made by the Montellano duchess in her testament in 1837. Philibert Mahy completed the liquidation of separate properties without Serra’s neighbours having to bear any burdensome charges, as happened in many other cases. In 1835, the disentailed Charterhouse of Portaceli district was annexed to Serra’s.