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Of kings, bishops and monks
The middle ages
started in 1468, when the monarch
signed a peace agreement with the
nobility. The noblemen affected by the
revolt, commanded by Pedro Madruga,
re-organized themselves, leaving the
continuing confrontations among each
other in order to fight the common
enemy. They came back from Portugal
and got the support of the archbishop
of Compostela, Diego Fonseca, and
his troops, with whom they definitely
defeated the Irmandiños in 1474.
Many of the castles had to be re-built
again, in retaliation, by the same
people that had demolished them.
Did you know?
“Among the demolished castles of the moment there was the Rocha Forte
in Santiago, but also the fortresses of the bishop of Ourense, both the
Castelo Ramiro in the outskirts of the city and his own castle. Indeed,
the huge current building was even bigger up to this moment, and was
surrounded by an ensemble of bastions (as the name that appears in the
medieval documents shows: the paços, torres e curral do bispo, “palace,
towers and farmyard of the bishop”), some of which were demolished by
the Irmandiños.”
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