Noble patrons could shield Moriscos from state control with travel passes into the 1550s

Evidence

Related to Sancho de Cardona was Rodrigo de Beaumont, of the family of the constables of Navarre, who had already been in trouble with the Inquisition in 1542 (Boronat 1901, 1: 473) for favoring the Moriscos in such ways as providing them with travel documents ( guiatges). With a documentfromsuch a powerful noble saying “I, Don Rodrigo de Biamont, procurator-general of the valleys of Seta and Guadalest, so that you may come to live there,” a Morisco might travel freely. That sort of medievalstyle protection still continued in many areas in the 1530s–1550s, particularly in Valencia. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1175

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the larger theme of clientelism and noble protection as a barrier to state centralization seen in Milgrom’s work on medieval trade institutions and in the Feudalism reading.