Bilboko Erregimendua xvi. eta xvii. mendeen bitartean: bazterketa eta erresistentzia aurrez aurre

Abstract

This piece of work analyses some events happened in Council meetings of Bilbao in the Early Modern Age. Trade in Bilbao was very active, therefore businessmen made the best of them to take over the main institution of local government, that is the Council. They expelled several groups from it by different means in order to control the election of representatives. Sometimes, the candidates were accused and brought to justice. Besides, they ruled new ordinances and other regulations. In many cases, there were also conflicts of interests between members of Bilbao\'s elite. The ruling classes did not succeed in every case. Anyway, this process of exclusion increased during the first third of the 17th. century. Finally, it became too difficult to bear.