{"id":1507,"date":"2025-09-28T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raval.es\/historia\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:15:04","slug":"el-motin-de-1766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raval.es\/historia\/el-motin-de-1766\/","title":{"rendered":"EL MOT\u00cdN DE 1766"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>Salvador Brotons Maruenda<\/b><hr><hr>\n<p>El llamado&nbsp;<strong>\u00abMot\u00edn de Esquilache\u00bb<\/strong>&nbsp;fue una revuelta iniciada en&nbsp;<strong>Madrid<\/strong>&nbsp;que mas tarde se propag\u00f3 por el territorio nacional.&nbsp;<strong>Esquilache<\/strong>&nbsp;fue un ministro italiano de&nbsp;<strong>Carlos III<\/strong>&nbsp;y contra quien se levant\u00f3 el pueblo de&nbsp;<strong>Madrid<\/strong>&nbsp;acus\u00e1ndole de ser un extranjero empe\u00f1ado en aplicar sin medida el despotismo ilustrado, siendo finalmente obligado a salir del gobierno y a su marcha inmediata a&nbsp;<strong>N\u00e1poles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>En&nbsp;<strong>Elche,<\/strong>&nbsp;el mot\u00edn se inici\u00f3 de buena ma\u00f1ana el d\u00eda 13 de abril de 1766, en el arrabal de&nbsp;<strong>San Juan,<\/strong>&nbsp;cuyo&nbsp;<strong>Cabildo<\/strong>&nbsp;estaba procediendo a las subastas de regal\u00edas y derechos de se\u00f1or\u00edas del&nbsp;<strong>Duque de Arcos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Entre la gran cantidad de gente,&nbsp;<strong>Bautista Blasco<\/strong>&nbsp;(conocido como \u201cel venerable viejo\u201d), con&nbsp;<strong>Jos\u00e9 Beltr\u00e1n Esclapes,<\/strong>&nbsp;junto a&nbsp;<strong>Francisco Romero<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>Jos\u00e9 V\u00e1zquez,<\/strong>&nbsp;levant\u00f3 la voz y diciendo hablar en nombre de la mayor\u00eda de los presentes, procedi\u00f3 a declararse contrario a cualquier subasta, iniciando as\u00ed una acalorada discusi\u00f3n con el procurador, don&nbsp;<strong>Ricardo S\u00e1nchez,<\/strong>&nbsp;al cual acus\u00f3 de ser un&nbsp;<strong>\u201csegundo Esquilache\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fue en este contexto, y al grito de&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cViva el Rey, muera el Duque de Arcos y don Ricardo S\u00e1nchez, segundo Esquilache\u201d,<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;cuando se inici\u00f3 la revuelta.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Los vecinos destrozaron el mobiliario y arrojaron piedras sobre los regidores, escribanos y s\u00edndico del&nbsp;<strong>Ayuntamiento<\/strong>&nbsp;y pidieron a gritos la supresi\u00f3n de todos los arbitrios. Los amotinados se trasladaron a la villa y eligieron por aclamaci\u00f3n un nuevo&nbsp;<strong>Alcalde Mayor,<\/strong>&nbsp;depusieron al anterior, a los dos justicias y a los otros dos ordinarios el mismo d\u00eda 13 por la tarde. El lunes 14 llego la revuelta a&nbsp;<strong>Almorad\u00ed,<\/strong>&nbsp;el 16 a&nbsp;<strong>Catral,<\/strong>&nbsp;el 20 a&nbsp;<strong>Crevillente<\/strong>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<strong>Novelda,<\/strong>&nbsp;el 21 a&nbsp;<strong>Albatera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Finalmente, el d\u00eda 22, por los mismos amotinados de&nbsp;<strong>Elche,<\/strong>&nbsp;se produjo la toma de la&nbsp;<strong>Albufera<\/strong>&nbsp;y el asalto al&nbsp;<strong>Castillo de Santa Pola,<\/strong>&nbsp;el cual pertenec\u00eda al&nbsp;<strong>Duque de Arcos,<\/strong>&nbsp;siendo la toma bastante sencilla, pues el alcaide del castillo, llamado&nbsp;<strong>Ortiz,<\/strong>&nbsp;no opuso resistencia alguna.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Por \u00faltimo y como colof\u00f3n de su obra, sacaron en triunfal rogativa a la imagen de la&nbsp;<strong>Virgen de la Asunci\u00f3n,<\/strong>&nbsp;con el fin de que los mensajeros enviados a&nbsp;<strong>Madrid,<\/strong>&nbsp;para dar cuenta al&nbsp;<strong>Rey<\/strong>&nbsp;de todo lo ocurrido, vinieran con la deseada aprobaci\u00f3n de \u00e9ste.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Como se puede observar, en t\u00e9rminos generales el movimiento se dirigi\u00f3 contra el r\u00e9gimen feudal y los abusos cometidos por los gobernantes, centr\u00e1ndose especialmente contra el&nbsp;<strong>Duque de Arcos.<\/strong>&nbsp;La revuelta en&nbsp;<strong>Elche<\/strong>&nbsp;se extendi\u00f3 hasta el 3 de mayo, cuando&nbsp;<strong>Beltr\u00e1n Esclapes<\/strong>&nbsp;y los restantes cabecillas del mot\u00edn cayeron apresados.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":87,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"1004\" src=\"https:\/\/raval.es\/historia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FB_IMG_1583340396111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raval.es\/historia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FB_IMG_1583340396111.jpg 602w, https:\/\/raval.es\/historia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FB_IMG_1583340396111-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvador Brotons Maruenda El llamado&nbsp;\u00abMot\u00edn de Esquilache\u00bb&nbsp;fue una revuelta iniciada en&nbsp;Madrid&nbsp;que mas tarde se propag\u00f3 por&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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