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The territorial and jurisdictional conflicts that confronted members of the nobility for control of certain villages in the Late Middle Ages constitute an ideal setting for studying processes of political communication. In this paper, I shall examine the long struggle, which lasted for nearly a century (from the mid- 15th to the mid-16th century), between the villages of Pancorbo --jurisdictionally dependent on Burgos-- and Briviesca --under the control of the house of Velasco-- over capital status in La Bureba. I shall analyse the agents and the phases of the conflict, the negotiation processes that took place both within and outside the council of Burgos, the discourses presented by both parts to support their claims, and the mark left by this episode in Burgos' "collective memory". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]