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Abstract

Las virreinas consortes, por no haber sido asignadas para el cargo mediante un nombramiento oficial, no contaban con un listado de deberes y atribuciones aparejadas. Sin embargo, sí ejercieron un poder informal de representación. Las celebraciones funerarias barrocas, escenarios cargados de teatralidad en los que la fuerza de lo simbólico llegaba a su máxima expresión, fueron un terreno clave para el ejercicio del poder figurativo por parte de las virreinas. Mediante la comparativa con las exequias reales celebradas en Navarra y otros ejemplos de funerales de virreyes y virreinas de unos y otros territorios se analizan las exequias de los virreyes navarros marqueses de Cayro. La participación activa de Catalina María Peregrina de Giudice y de la Sierra en los funerales de su esposo, Luis Carlos Antonio González de Albelda y Cayro, y los dictámenes testamentarios en torno a su propia muerte nos hablan de una virreina que, pese a su condición de consorte, tuvo un papel activo en el gobierno humano y político del virreinato Navarro de mitades del XVIII.

Alternate abstract:

The vicereine consorts, because they had not been assigned to the position, did not have associated duties and powers. However, they practiced an informal power of representation. Baroque funeral celebrations, scenes full of theatricality in which the force of the symbolic reached its maximum expression, were a key place for the exercise of figurative power by the vicereines. Through a comparison with the royal funerals held in Navarra and other examples of funerals of viceroys and vicereines, the funerals of the Navarrese viceroys, Marquises of Cayro, are analyzed. The active participation of Catalina María Peregrina de Giudice y de la Sierra in the funeral of her husband, Luis Carlos Antonio González de Albelda y Cayro, and the testamentary opinions surrounding her own death tell us about a vicereine who, despite her condition as a consort, he had an active role in the human and political government of the navarrese viceroyalty in the mid-18th century.

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Title
El poder virreinal femenino emerge ante la muerte. El caso de Catalina de Giudice y de la Sierra, marquesa de Cayro y virreina de Navarra (1765-1770)
Alternate title
The emergence of female viceregal power in the face of death: the case of Catalina de Giudice y de la Sierra, marchioness of Cayro and vicereine of Navarre (1765-1770)
Publication title
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
67-88
Number of pages
23
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Section
Estudios
Publisher
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Place of publication
Madrid
Country of publication
Spain
Publication subject
ISSN
02144018
e-ISSN
19882475
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
Document type
Journal Article
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2025-06-23
Milestone dates
2024-10-21 (Submitted); 2025-06-23 (Created); 2025-06-23 (Issued); 2025-06-23 (Modified); 2025-06-23 (Published)
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
23 Jun 2025
ProQuest document ID
3224056155
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Last updated
2025-11-14
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