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The exhibition, which opens this afternoon at 19:30 pm, offers the unique opportunity to admire the most significant documents of the arrival of King Ferdinand to the city, where he prepared the conquest of the Muslim kingdom of Granada.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, reported that Guevara Palace was the venue chosen to host an exhibition that commemorates the 525 anniversary of the stay of the Catholic Monarchs in our region.
The mayor explained that 525 years ago now (April 26), the Catholic Kings arrived in Murcia with the main objective to conquer the eastern kingdom of Granada.
In early June Ferdinand Lorca set off to head the army concentrated there, from where he left to start the campaign for land Almería.
On his return he visited Caravaca, Murcia returned to where they had been the queen and court for just over three months, and finally left the kingdom by night in Yecla.
Among the most important parts of this sample we note three documents that have to do with Lorca, is the provision of the Catholic Monarchs to the municipality of Lorca clarifying the terms of the oath he had made to always choose right people for the trades vacasen., as well as the testimony of the oath he swore Ferdinand to enter the town of Lorca and the homage paid to him by the council.
And the testimony of the inauguration of the places Huercal Overa and as a term and villages in the town of Lorca.
The exhibition "The Catholic Monarchs in Murcia. 1488" commemorates this event through panels and facsimiles of contemporary documents preserved in the Municipal Archives of the Region.
Note that Lorca was a base for military campaigns launched kings, from 1482, against the last bit of European Islam: the Nasrid sultanate of Granada.
Don Juan Chacón, as senior captain and advance the kingdom of Murcia entered the capital at the beginning of the following year, where he was received by the council, and required people of Arms throughout the kingdom to nourish the Castilian army.
The April 26, 1488 were the monarchs themselves who came to Murcia, going to receive the mayor, aldermen, and all Murcia.
And there the campaign against Almeria land would result in the conquest of Granada numerous places (including Vera and Baza, where he excelled in the fight knights Murcia) was prepared.
Monarchs requested sending soldiers to the campaign, which was a breakthrough border, displacing war Murcia land before the final fall of Granada in 1492.
All this occurred during a period of marked growth.
Murcia Solar dealing and the city grew thanks to population growth that occurred in that time.
Timidly also began to roturarse spaces from abandoned orchard alfonsí conquest.
The rise in business was also one of the characteristic features of the last years of the century.
In Murcia numerous Genoese had their residence (as the King, the Black, etc.., See above), who controlled the placing on the market of products entering or leaving the port of Cartagena and to a lesser extent, that of Mazarrón, at that time, and well into the sixteenth century, belongs to Lorca.
Lorca Castle, "suitable to break the border instead of the Moors."
The chronicles of the time tell thus stay of King Ferdinand in Lorca: "Two days we have taken since we left the city of Murcia, reaching Lorca, where his Highness, well advised, has decided to take the offensive to the Moorish city of Vera. Truly this Lorca Castle is an imposing fortress that dominates the territory and the perfect place to break the boundary of the Moors place. Here we awaited the advance with his troops don Juan Chacon and the marquis of Cadiz, with other people and knights, who days before had left for Lorca to go preparing everything for our arrival. His Highness made entry into this city at two in the afternoon, officially and solemnly with an oath to keep privileges and exemptions and other forms of heading, as was done in the city of Murcia. In nothing to envy the reception given by the king Lorca, Murcia which gave on April 26 .. our beloved sovereign Juan de Alcocer , notary of the town of Lorca, has been commissioned to witness the entry of King Don Fernando in it. His Highness came to the door of the monastery of Our Lady Santa Olalla, where it was placed and decorated an altar for the reception of Her Royal Majesty, being all clerics and the Dean Johan Valero present, carrying it in his hands a cross of very devout glass and holy missal. Upon receiving tribute from neighbors and swear their charters, Her Highness crossed the city to climb the castle. already Being all assembled troops, the King expressed his desire to take the city of Vera as before, and after hearing rumors that come from the inhabitants of Vera have no intention of resisting. But we must rely, because we know that in matters of war lies Diablo sponsors. troops depart tomorrow for Vera, and this reporter will return to Murcia to expect news next to the queen and her court. "
The witness of the oath he swore Ferdinand to enter the town of Lorca and the homage paid to him by the council is also preserved in the Municipal Archives of our city, and says: "The Lord our King Ferdinand entered the said çibdad the day that the two pray noon. Walked His Highness the door of the monastery of Mrs. Santa Olalla, where was set and decorated an altar for her Royal Majesty RECEIVING ... And said Archpriest was holding a cross ( +) very devout glass, and also the holy missal ... there seemed present to her highness, the kneeling knees ... honest ... and other council members ... and college ... and vezinos desta çibdad. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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