Alianças familiares: estratégias de uma elite de antigo regime

Abstract

Nearby to the effervescent miner cycle the patronage of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Guarapiranga presented to your inhabitants the possibility to obtain prestige and economic success through the exploration of your ore bed of gold and your crescent and satisfactory propensity to the agriculture and cattle raising. Although the richness obtained even always been magnificent, this region presented during 18th century different characteristics usually connected the nations of Old Government. With families, many times, formed to Portuguese husbands and women of region, the interests that contoured this individuals usually to pass over for optics of marriage, in the wich was possible establish different advantageous alliances between the principal affluent families of patronage. So that then this matrimonies were concretized various artifices were realized, like the dispenses or matrimonial baths hat consented what consaguineous individuals united and Portuguese vassals married without much confirmation of your celibacy. The concession of dowers was another artifice employed to the families in the acquisition of a “good catch” to the daughters. On it dower the daughters with properties, as slaves, money, gold, lands, animals and another, the father got the realization of the matrimony with an individual that offered to the family social, economic and political privileges and the son-in-law, often, stealed the dower properties and inserted in the society, in case of the Portugueses, as a permanent member and wellliked. This work, therefore, analyses the different elements that encircled the society of the patronage of Guarapiranga, emphasizing the artifices utilized for the families through the marriages and the your apparent characteristics associated to the Old Government.