This talk examines the English merchant community that traded in the ports of Atlantic Andalusia (County of Niebla, Seville, Cadiz, Sanlucar de Barrameda, El Puerto de Santa Maria, and Jerez de la Frontera) from 1507 to 1561. This period spans from Ferdinand the Catholic's regency and the final years of Henry VII's rule to the early reigns of Philip II in Spain and Elizabeth I in England. Using sources from English and Spanish archives, we highlight four angles: political and religious context; sociodemographic; economic; and social and religious integration. Special attention is given to the Brotherhood of Saint George of Sanlucar de Barrameda, the first English and Irish mercantile consulate in Castile.

María Grove-Gordillo

Maria is a Postdoc at the University of Bamberg (Germany), holds a PhD in History from the University of Seville (Spain). She specializes in the commercial exchanges between England and Andalusia during the first half of the 16th century, as demonstrated in her thesis, "Comunidad, comercio y conflicto: los mercaderes ingleses en la Andalucía atlántica (1507-1561)" (trans: Community, trade and conflict: the English merchants of the Atlantic Andalusia (1507-1561)). Grove-Gordillo has extensive experience with Spanish and English archives. Her primary research focuses on England's and Spain's commercial relations during the Early Modern Period, and she has published and presented on trade in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.