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Studying Adult Mortality in Spanish Nobility,16th-19th C.
| This paper deals with the adult mortality characteristics of the Spanish nobility between 16th and 19th centuries. It is based on the genealogic evidences gathered in submitted applications to enter prestigious nobility orders such as Santiago, Calatrava or Carlos III”. In all, I have information about more than 11,000 men and 8,000 women, living in the Iberian Peninsula and Colonial America. Thanks to this dataset, and using the methodology developed by A. Blum, I offer life expectancy estimates in adult age (20 and over) by cohort. Finally, I compare my data with those published for some European and Asiatic privileged social groups. The life expectancies that the Spanish nobility shows, even in high-mortality hypothesis, were among the best of Europe and Asia. They were lower than French ones but, at the same time, they were, noticeably, over of the British during the 17th and 18th centuries (although in this last period differences were lower)
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