Global InformationCasa de Ganaderos de Zaragoza information
 Coat of arms of Casa de Ganaderos, Zaragoza, Spain | |
| Company type | Institution; cooperative |
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| Founded | May 18, CE 1218, in Zaragoza, Spain |
| Founder | James I of Aragon |
| Website | http://casaganaderos.com/ |
The Casa de Ganaderos de Zaragoza or Brotherhood of San Simón y San Judas (House of Livestock Breeders of Zaragoza) is an institution of medieval origin that was established to defend the privileges granted by the kings to the cattle owners of the kingdom, also bringing together corporately mayorales and herders. After seeing its powers drastically reduced since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it changed its name and legal status (local board, association, union or cooperative, which is the one with which it continues to operate today; which makes it the oldest company in Spain). [1] The territorial breadth of its activity included ravines for the herds of sheeps transhumants from the Pyreneess valleys to the Sistema Ibérico of Teruel. As a privileged corporation of the Ancien Régime, it is similar to the Mesta Castilian, although it precedes it in time and survived it. Unlike the Crown of Castile, the Kingdom of Aragon did not create a common institution for the whole kingdom, but in each locality, independent of each other and far from royal control. [2][3]
- ^ Casa Ganaderos (2008). "Casa de Ganaderos desde 1218". Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ^ "Ganaderia" [Livestock]. Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (in Spanish). 29 September 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ^ "Casa de Ganaderos". Retrieved 7 April 2014.