Un poder medieval, una vida en la modernidadla familia Vivero de Valladolid

Resumen

The Vivero was a family originary from Galicia that arrives at Valladolid in the early XV century. Of Hidalgo origin, they focused their efforts on achieving social ascent using typical strategies of the moment. They became one of the most important families of the place and they made ostentation of it through construc-tions like a fortress in the village of Fuensaldaña and some palace houses in the urban nucleus, they found a majority and through the concert of marriages with the main families of the kingdom in order to secure their position. However, the disturbances that occurred during the reign of Enrique IV and the political choi-ces of some prominent members of the family ended up moving them away from de position of power they had achieved in the final century of the Middle Ages. At the dawn of modernity, the family was forced to use all the strategies to maintain their position. To that end, the main branch was linked to the powerful house of Borgia. Others were not so lucky. While the misfortune of the main family is part of the context of the noble struggles of the fifteenth century, the fall of the Cazalla Vivero puts us in contact with the problems of the first half of the sixteenth century in Castile: the converted problem and the reformist movements of a religious character that ended up being condemned by the Inquisition.