ABSTRACT
JosAndrs-Gallego refers to the surprise which he felt a quarter of a century ago, upon realizing that the pilgrimages to Santiago continued to very much a living reality in the eighteenth century, at least, in so far as they prompted Bauelos, intendente or bursar of the Castilian city of Burgos, to complain of the strain placed on the coffers of the hospital and other almshouses in the city, cause of which was the confluence and the toing and froing of pilgrims. A tenencia was one of the districts into which the kingdom divided. The tenencias governed by exceptionally prominent figures drawn from the nobility, with political, military, judicial and fiscal functions. In thirteenth century, these districts would be replaced by the merindades, governed by the Merino, and Roncesvalles remained in the merindad of Sangesa up until the nineteenth century, when the merindades, in Navarre, became judicial districts. Civil Organization of Roncesvalles as a political community organized along a hospital community.
