If passionate about history Juan, I’m De Kastilya You have the opportunity to be these days for a small city TorquemadaV PalenciaIt will coincide with the whole event that the inhabitants of the city will take care of details, and this will please all passionate from the history of this Spain. And that The party and the reconstruction of the arrival of the funeral delegation, led by the heiress of Catholic monarchs, are noted.
Castilian and Leons Villa lived in the singular Christmas Eve in 1506The field and this is that the neighbors could not pay tribute to what they saw: a huge funeral environment, lit by the torches, which were going to cross the city bridge over the Pisyuga River. Between monks and soldiers, a coffin and next to him, a pregnant woman and a strict mourning: Queen Juan I, the heiress of the Catholic monarchs, who was a widow, traveled on foot and night from Burgos with her husband’s body, Felipa El Harmoso, whom she wanted to take into Granada.
Pretty tired of the traveled path, Juan He decided to stop at Torquemada to try to resume strength … a stay that lasted more than she plannedThe field because, in fact, the widow and its large environment remained in this villa -Dod -Cherrato until April. It is interesting that this was not a long stay that benefited neighbors, since it destroyed the resources of Torkemy, whose inhabitants were forced to hide and food to hundreds of people.
When she decided to stay for several days in Torkvima, the queen ordered that her husband’s body, Felipe El Hermoso, remained in the church of Santa Eullia. And that it was accompanied by soldiers day and night. No woman could go to the temple, and the masses were not marked. And so in April, when the queen and her entourage were to continue the path from Torquema, running from the plague, in the direction of Granada.
Catalina “La Torquemadina”
Soon after arriving in the city of Palencia, Juana I from Castile gave birth to her sixth daughter. Catalina was named, born on January 14, 1507 and, therefore, was the posthumous daughter of Felipe El HermosoThe field after she was born there, some authors nicknamed her, such as La Torquemadina, a girl who will go to Tordesillas for several months, where Juan was forced to stop her trip, slowing down the melancholic intentions to transfer my husband’s body to Granada.
Already in Tordesillas, Little Catalina grew up captive with her motherLiving, yes, a quiet life from the court. Despite her isolation, Juan took care to control her training, providing her with royal education and solid cultural experience. Catalina learned to be a cultural woman to dominate excellent music and dancing in order to dominate Latin or Greek. Test, once again that the Castile Queen was not actually “crazy”.
Catalina, Princess Torkemedina, He became a state of state, actively participating in political decisions And advises his husband. Despite the fact that historically he was transferred to the background and his famous image, historians saved him as a cunning queen and a qualified policy. And this, although he had a difficult life, as he saw how nine of his children die. After the death of her husband Juan III in 1557, she adopted the regency of Portugal from this year to 1562. She died in Lisbon on February 12, 1578.
With all this heritage, every summer Torquemada recalls this weekend the episode of its history with Setting the arrival of funeral courtship in Huan I from Castilla and Felipa El HermosoIn fact, courtship will cross the Pisyuga River and will be received by residents of the city. Then the theater idea of this episode of history will begin.
