Senhoras donas das vilas de Bragança e de Ourém nos Oitocentos

Abstract

Through a survey of wills and inventories post-mortem, it was possible to investigate the participation of rural proprietary women in the towns of Bragança and Ourém under the condition of executors and inventoried, and, therefore, to group them according to information obtained in the documentation while women of modest means, medians and wealthy women in a context fraught with tension as was the eight hundred. It also sought to identify the symbols of wealth existing at the time, and how they processed the division of property, as well as the implications that arose during the process. Reconstruct the history of these women and check the composition and maintenance of their assets were the objectives of this investigation.