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El obispo Quevedo y la revuelta gallega llamada «de La Ulloa» (1790) contra la contribución única

2014; Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca; Volume: 36; Linguagem: Inglês

10.14201/shhmo201436357377

2386-3889

Jesús de Juana López,

Classical Studies and Legal History

Don Pedro de Quevedo and Quintano (1736, Villanueva del Fresno, Badajoz-1818, Orense), had an excellent education, characteristic of the political and ecclesiastical elites of the time, received in Granada, Avila and, especially, at the University of Salamanca, where he obtained a Bachelor and Doctorate degree in Theology, where he was a professor for many years and where he exercised as Chancellor or Maestrescuelas, occupation that he would combine with his choral obligations as canon Theologian of Salamanca’s Cathedral. From 1776 to his death in 1818 he was bishop of Orense, and during this long period of time he had an important episcopal, political and, even, military activity due to his significant implication in the war against the Napoleonic troops. Perhaps his two most prestigious moments were his appointment as President of the Regency in 1810 and the concession of the Cardinal cloak in 1816. In the pages that follow we are going to study one of the actions in which the prelate was the real protagonist and gave him a welldeserved fame, both in Galicia and the Court. We’re referring to his determined action in the solution of a far-reaching social conflict, developed in 1790, that became the most important anti-fiscal revolt in Galicia during the Old Regime.