Called honor to a right that the rich men in the Kingdom of Aragon.
Honors, honor cavalries and benefits were rights that came to be synonymous. There were many rich men who did not have dominion over the places but they owned them in honor, which did not empower them more than to their government and to the administration of justice in the name of the King. These rents were recorded in the royal pechas, in the subsidies paid by the aljamas, in the tolls, salt pans and cozuelos or almudí, according to the claims made by the Count of Ribagorza and Lope Jiménez de Urrea in the Cortes of Zaragoza of 1398.
Pedro II in the Cortes of Daroca in 1213 took at his hand all the honors and chivalry enjoyed by the lords and made new distribution of them, reserving for himself 130 caballerias and although Jerónimo Zurita affirms that the King did them this grace by swearing of inheritance for himself and his successors, Ignacio Asso assures that he received remarkable deception and that the cavalries continued being removable, since later they were deprived of them by Jaime II.
Elementary treaty of Public Finance institutions of Spain, Ramón de Espinola and Subiza, 1853
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