Alguacil

This article covers the medieval officials in Spain. For the singer of the same name cf. Mayte Alguacil

Alguacil (from Arabic al-wazir ) were the names of subordinate officials of the late medieval urban judicial administration in Spain .

They had to carry out judicial or administrative orders. The area of ​​responsibility of the German Büttels is comparable.

The office of Alguacil arose in the 13th century at the Castilian-Leonese royal court.

At the Aragonese royal court of the 14th century, two alguacils (in Catalan algotzirs ) are responsible for finding the law in the palace district.

literature

• Carlos Sáez Sánchez, Ludwig Vones: Alguacil . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 411.