Causas de remoción de la carga de expósitos en Galicia a través de los pleitos del Hospital Real de Santiagosiglo XVIII
- Cristina Nogueira da Silva (coord.)
- Margarida Seixas (coord.)
Publisher: Dykinson
ISBN: 978-84-1377-379-7
Year of publication: 2021
Pages: 57-82
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
The Royal Hospital of Santiago since its founding, in the late 15th century by the Catholic Monarchs, it seems it had the duty of shelter and upbringing of abandoned children in the Galician Kingdom, among its pious works. As the only hospice until the end of the 18th century, the increasing number of children of arrived to the Royal House prevented this from meeting the obligations on its own, being essential to come to the aid of the galician families which were forced to take in these abandoned children. The duty of exposited could only be overridden if the families were involved in any of the causes generated legally, customarly or deriving from the Delivery Decree of Hospital Administrator through the 17th and 18th centuries.