El donativo de las guerras de Italia (1629): estudio del caso del Arzobispado de Toledo y la provincia de Guadalajara

Abstract

Extraordinary aids or donatives were one of the fiscal devices used in the reign of Phillip IV to attain the earnings that ambitious foreign policy demanded, as it was the case in 1629 on the occasion of wars of Italy. In spite of their great importance still we don’t know very well the receipt, the forms of collections, the grants offered by the king and if it changed the nature of Castilian tax system. This paper just analyses these questions in the district of archbishopric of Toledo and the province of Guadalajara, when don Fernando Ramírez Fariña was commissioned by the Royal Council of Castile, and which records provide a rich and useful documents.