Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)

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The Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) was a series of 19th-century liberal reforms that expropriated and sold off Church and monastic properties to reduce ecclesiastical power and raise state revenue.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anticlerical policy
confiscation
economic reform
liberal reform
aimedAt creation of a liberal property-owning class
secularization of property
weakening of the Catholic Church
alsoKnownAs Desamortización española
Spanish disentailment
appliesTo Church lands
convents
monasteries
municipal commons
appliesToJurisdiction Kingdom of Spain
consequence concentration of land in few hands
disappearance of many religious communities
fiscal relief for the Spanish state
social conflict in rural areas
transfer of Church property to private owners
country Spain
hasPart Desamortización de Godoy
Desamortización de Madoz
Desamortización de Mendizábal
historicalContext 19th-century European secularization
historicalPeriod Spanish liberal revolution
implementedBy Spanish Cortes
linked to: Cortes Españolas

Spanish liberal governments
influenced later Spanish church–state relations
structure of Spanish landownership
influencedBy Enlightenment ideas
liberal economic theory
languageOfName Spanish
legalForm series of laws
mainSubject expropriation of Church property
increase of state revenue
reduction of ecclesiastical power
sale of monastic lands
opposedBy Spanish Catholic Church
conservative factions in Spain
politicalAlignment Spanish liberalism
relatedTo Spanish First Carlist War
linked to: Carlist Wars

Spanish anticlericalism
Spanish land reform
startTime 19th century
supportedBy Spanish liberals
linked to: Spanish liberalism

progressive governments
temporalLocation reign of Isabella II of Spain

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Poblet Monastery disestablishedBy Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) hasPart Desamortización de Mendizábal
linked to: Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) hasPart Desamortización de Madoz
linked to: Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) relatedTo Spanish land reform
linked to: Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) alsoKnownAs Desamortización española
linked to: Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)
Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización) alsoKnownAs Spanish disentailment
linked to: Spanish confiscation of monasteries (Desamortización)