The entailed estate

Another curious fact surrounds the tower known as "Mayorazgo", in English the XII -XIVth C "Tower of the Entailed Estate".
It should have belonged to Ricardo Autopiedra but there was a problem of conflicting wills which resulted in the famous and very long-winded suit "Frascoydados and Frascoydados" in the Tribunal de la Cancillería.

What the Dickens has this to do with Vejer? Well the rather bleak story became the unacknowledged source for a famous novel published in 19thC England and later adapted for TV and film. Now I know how it started.

Coda: In Spanish law, MAYORAZGO means the right to the enjoyment of certain aggregate property, left with the condition thereon imposed that they are to pass in their integrity, perpetually, successively to the eldest son.Read more