Lordship of Biscay

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The Lordship of Biscay was a medieval Basque polity centered in what is now Biscay in northern Spain, later incorporated into the Crown of Castile while retaining distinctive local laws and institutions.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Lordship of Biscay canonical 7
Seignory of Biscay 1
Señorío de Vizcaya 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf feudal lordship
historic Basque territory
medieval polity
borderedBy Cantabrian Sea
linked to: Bay of Biscay

other Basque lordships
capital Bilbao
Gernika
linked to: Gernika-Lumo
country Kingdom of Spain
ethnicGroup Basques
followedBy province of Biscay
governmentType feudal monarchy
hasAssembly Juntas of Gernika
hasCustom exemption from certain royal taxes
local self-government
hasInstitution Biscayan General Assemblies
hasLanguage Basque language
linked to: Basque

Romance languages
hasLaw Biscayan charter
hasLegalSystem Basque fueros
fueros of Biscay
hasPrivilege recognition of local fueros by Castilian monarchs
hasReligion Roman Catholicism
hasSymbol oak of Gernika
hasTitle Lord of Biscay
historicalRegion Lordship of Biscay
historicalStatus constituent territory of the Hispanic Monarchy
legalStatusWithinCastile semi-autonomous territory
locatedIn Basque Country
Biscay
northern Iberian Peninsula
northern Spain
mergedInto Crown of Castile
nobleTitleHeldBy kings of Castile
linked to: King of Castile

kings of Spain
partOf Basque territories
linked to: Basque Country

Crown of Castile
Kingdom of Castile
linked to: Castile
politicalIntegration gradual incorporation into centralized Spanish state
precededBy early medieval Basque polities
region Bay of Biscay coast
linked to: Bay of Biscay
retained distinctive local institutions
distinctive local laws
timePeriod Middle Ages
early modern period

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Crown of Castile predecessor Lordship of Biscay
Lordship of Biscay historicalRegion Lordship of Biscay
Lord of Biscay hasTerritorialScope Seignory of Biscay
linked to: Lordship of Biscay
Lord of Biscay hasTerritorialScope Lordship of Biscay
Lord of Biscay hasAlternativeName Lordship of Biscay
Lord of Biscay hasAlternativeName Señorío de Vizcaya
linked to: Lordship of Biscay
Juntas of Gernika appliesToJurisdiction Lordship of Biscay
Biscayan General Assemblies country Lordship of Biscay
Biscayan General Assemblies governingBodyOf Lordship of Biscay