Seigneury_of_Villena

Lordship of Villena

Lordship of Villena

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The Lordship of Villena (Spanish: Señorío de Villena) was a feudal state located in southern Spain, in the kingdom of Castile.[1] It bordered to the north with Cuenca and to south with the city of Murcia. The territory was structured in two political centers: the Land of Alarcón, to the north, and the Land of Chinchilla to the south. Less central were the towns of Iniesta, the Land of Jorquera, Hellín, Tobarra, Almansa, Yecla, Sax and Villena, which, despite giving the name to the lordship, was territorially peripheral, although it previously included the cities along Vinalopó river (Sax, Elda, Novelda, Elche). The borders changed with the time, provided the temporary addition of some towns (Villarrobledo, Lezuza, Munera, Jumilla and Utiel in the 15th century) and the loss of some other towns.[1]

Extension of the Lordship of Villena at the time of Don Juan Manuel, around the year 1340

The lordship has a double historical origin. On the one side, the towns and villages of the Land of Jorquera, Hellín, Ves, Tobarra, Almansa, Yecla, Sax and Villena were owned by Infante Manuel of Castile, so it began to be called the Land of don Manuel. On the other side, the Land of Alarcón and Iniesta belonged to the crown during the 12th and 13th centuries, being incorporated to the lordship by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena,[1] who had a very wide jurisdiction in his land and made it become a dukedom and, finally, a principate.[2]


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  • Pretel Marín, Aurelio; Rodríguez LLopis, Miguel (1998). El señorío de Villena en el siglo XIV (in Spanish). Albacete: Instituto de estudios albacetenses "Don Juan Manuel" de la Excma. Diputación de Albacete. ISBN 84-87136-86-9.
  • Soler García, José María (2006). Historia de Villena: desde la Prehistoria hasta el siglo XVIII [History of Villena: from Prehistory to the 18th Century] (PDF) (in Spanish). Digitalised by the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (1st ed.). Villena: Fundación Municipal José María Soler & M.I. Ayuntamiento de Villena. ISBN 978-84-934950-0-8. Retrieved August 12, 2009.

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