El austracismo en el reino de Mallorca

Abstract

Majorca and Ibiza remained under Habsburg rule during nine years, from 1706 to 1715. This was not a peaceful period due to the persistence of suspicions of disaffection towards certain pro-Bourbon conspirators. The regime had to take forceful measures to remain in power: prisoner deportations, the exile of supporters of Philip, and tighter control over the draws to designate Universitat officers, dismissing those who had been selected by draw to hold public office on order of the viceroy, and dispensing others to hold those offices. Loyalty to the cause was preferred to strict observance of the law. Moreover, news received from the mainland was disguised if it referred to military defeats. In Menorca, the austracistas were disappointed: some of them had lost their lives, their position and their wealth to support the House of Austria when in the end they had turned into subjects of a non-Catholic monarchy.