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Decree of the Royal Court of Barcelona on the competences of the Tàrrega City Council in appointing the Batlle and two Mostassass for the place of Talladell

Date
1741
Archive
Historical Archive of Lleida
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-AHL-60-49
Link to the online document
Description

In 1741, the Royal Court of Barcelona issued a decree regulating the powers of the Tàrrega City Council in the appointment of the batlle and two mostassafs for the Talladell site. This document is a clear example of the complex institutional architecture that governed local life in eighteenth-century Catalonia, at a time when the territory was adapting to the new administrative structures imposed after the War of Succession. The intervention of the Royal Court, the Principality’s highest judicial instance, reflects Bourbon centralization and the will to control and standardize local governance. At the same time, it highlights the persistence of an active and organized municipal life, which continued to articulate the territory. This decree is witness to a Europe in transformation, where law, politics and administration became tools to build new models of state and coexistence.