The regimiento, cabildo de regidores or concejo cerrado ("closed council") was a system of local government established from the 14h century onwards in the Crown of Castile.[1] A feature of the progressive oligarchization of the form of government in the cities, the change from the overruled concejo abierto system entailed a reduction of the government to a relatively small number of regidores.[2] Urban oligarchies intended to fully capture the nomination of the regidores (appointed by the monarch in the case of realengo) since the beginning.[2] The bulk of the establishment of the new regime chiefly took place between 1345 and the later years of the reign of Alfonso XI of Castile.[3]
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- ^ López Villalba 1992, p. 65; Jara Fuente 2007, p. 225; Maser 2019, p. 226
- ^ a b López Villalba 1992, p. 65.
- ^ Monsalvo Antón 1990, pp. 259–260.
- Bibliography
- Jara Fuente, José Antonio (2007). "Estructuras formales de poder y de organización de las clases dominantes urbanas en Castilla el regimiento: una crisis del siglo XIV en el siglo XV" (PDF). Edad Media: Revista de Historia (8): 225–241. ISSN 1138-9621.
- López Villalba, José Miguel (1992). "Concejo abierto, regimiento y corregimiento en Guadalajara (1346-1546)" (PDF). Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie III, Historia Medieval. 5. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia: 65–84. ISSN 0214-9745.
- Maser, Matthias (2019). "Conquered Cities: Continuity and Transformation of Urban Structures in the Castilian 'Reconquista' Territories (11th–14th Centuries)—Toledo and Seville". In Panzram, Sabine (ed.). The Power of Cities: The Iberian Peninsula from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Leiden & Boston: BRILL. pp. 201–246. ISBN 9789004399693.
- Monsalvo Antón, José María (1990). "La sociedad política en los concejos castellanos de la Meseta durante la época del Regimiento medieval. La distribución social del poder" (PDF). Concejos y ciudades en la Edad Media hispánica (II Congreso de la Fundación Sánchez-Albornoz, León, 1989). pp. 359–413.
