Barragana: In the Middle Ages was very common that the clerics maintained marital relations prohibited by the Catholic Church. Popes, Cardinals and bishops procreaban outside of marriage, as it was impossible to stop this problem has made them more easy to create a new status that would give legality to the births, so is born the concept barragania. It is believed that in the century thirteen is when approving this law within the clergy. Barragana could be because there is a barrier that prevents them from marrying (bar) and (win) because winning the Catholic Church, winning the cleric was the mother of the children and earned the children. If someone carrying the surname Barragan want know its origins already knows that the Barraganes could well be grandchildren of some clerics. With the passage of the years barragana is as synonymous with concubine, mistress etc.
