The Indias were not colonies, but kingdoms, subjected to the Spanish Crown. The Kingdom of Perú was constituted over the base of two "republics" interconnected, one of spanish and the other of indians, with predorninance of the first one. According with the class ideas from the time, each one of the republics had an elite, which conformated a nobility. The spanish nobility was based in the nobility law from the Iberian Peninsula. Instead, the nobility of the indian republic was fundamented in the pre-hispanic dignities of the Incaic Empire. The Crown recognized this traditional foundations of the incaic nobility and incorporated them to the Spanish law. In this way, the incaic nobility subsisted in Peru until 1823, when the republican Congress declared the abolition of all nobility titles, indian or spanish.
Keywords:
Nobility - Viceroyalty - Spanish Empire - Incaic Empire - Class society
Trazegníes Granda, F. de. (2010). La nobleza incaica en el derecho indiano. Revista Chilena De Historia Del Derecho, (21), Pág. 661–685. https://doi.org/10.5354/rchd.v0i22.22079
