Income and manorial rights of the Cárdenas family on their Valencian domains on the Vinalopó river (Elche, Crevillente and Aspe)

Abstract

This article analyses the different feudal taxes and rights present in those cities owned by the Cárdenas lineage in the South of the Valencian Kingdom in the late Middle Ages. This way, I have carried out a study about the incomes provided by the Christians or Muslims vassals from Elche, Crevillente and Aspe, with the aim of identifying the characteristics of each of these places. We have also taken into account other studies about this topic with the objective of analysing the evolution of the elements which make up the feudal incomes system in this region.