Carrión de los Condes

Carrión de los Condes is a small town on the Camino de Santiago in the province of Palencia of the Autonomous Community of Castile -Leon. It lies on the banks of the Río Carrión and has several churches and the former Benedictine Monastery of San Zoilo, which is out of town on the opposite bank of Carrión.

Coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms is quartered. In the first and the red field a golden castle with crenellated towers, the middle is the higher, with blue windows and blue passage; in blue each one zweirädiger schrägestellter in the second and third field with the shafts facing golden carts; in the fourth field of the Castilian - lionische lion. The eingepfropfte in the sign top shows in a silver pomegranate. On the escutcheon is placed the golden crown. The Order of the Golden Fleece surrounds the shield.

History

The origins of the town rich by archaeological finds date back to pre-Roman times. The nickname of the place ( de los Condes = the counts ) refers to the family of the Counts Beni- Gomez. Gómez Díaz and his wife Teresa established in 1077 in San Zoilo Abbey a Benedictine monastery and started to build a bridge and a hostel for pilgrims.

Literary famous is Earl Diego and Fernando Gómez, the " Condes de Carrión " whose tombs are to be seen in the monastery. According to the legend, which is told in the epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid should have against the will of the famous Castilian knight El Cid his daughters Elvira and Sol married characterized as cowardly and devious Count (both fictitious names ) and their wives abused it and leave. The Cid killed both sons in the court battle and married his daughters, and the kings of Aragon and Navarre.

For a true core of this announcement, there are, however, no historical evidence; the two brothers mentioned were certainly never married to the daughters of the Cid. Rather, it is estimated to have the intention of the author, the Cid presented as idealized knights, shine even brighter and purer whose virtues in the light of such dark figures. The historian further assume that the author of the epic has projected an existing in his own time feud with the descendants of the Counts of Carrión in the past. In the history of the controversy of El Cid with his sons and the ( previously in Madrid) custody since 2007 in Burgos sword Tizona plays a role (for more details see below).

In the High Middle Ages, Carrión de los Condes was a very prosperous city, were held in the Reichstag and synods. The Liber Sancti Jacobi pilgrim leader praises it as rich in bread and wine. The portal of the Romanesque church Jacob shows 22 artisans who found plenty of work by numerous pilgrims. The other Romanesque church of the village, Santa María del Camino, shows the " bull miracle " in which 100 young girls who should be delivered as a tribute to the Moors, were rescued by two bulls. ( The background is the Moorish tribute exposures to other faiths, based on which the Moorish household to a large extent. 's Propaganda machinery of the Reconquista then the double meaning of the word Doncella = Virgo = Name of a gold piece was cleverly used.)

Carrión de los Condes is the birthplace of the famous poet and humanist Iñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana.