The House of
Haro was one of the most powerful families of Castile during the Middle Ages and strongly supported the
expansionist
Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism.
In the classical age of conquest moral justification for territorial expansion at the direct expense of another established polity (who of ...
policies of
Alfonso VI of Castile
Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...
. As a reward,
Íñigo López was named the first
Lord of Biscay
The Lordship of Biscay ( es, Señorío de Vizcaya, Basque: ''Bizkaiko jaurerria'') was a region under feudal rule in the region of Biscay in the Iberian Peninsula between 1040 and 1876, ruled by a political figure known as the Lord of Biscay. On ...
.
In the early 16th century, the Haro family married paternally into the
House of Sotomayor establishing a branch that would go on to hold dominion over the
Marquesado del Carpio established in 1559 by King
Philip II of Spain
Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...
.
Bibliography
* Salazar y Castro, Luis, ''Historia genealógica de la Casa de Haro'', Dalmiro de la Válgoma y Díaz-Varela, Madrid, 1959.
* Baury, Ghislain, "Diego López 'le bon' et Diego López 'le mauvais' : comment s'est construite la mémoire d'un magnat du règne d'Alphonse VIII de Castille", ''Berceo'', n°144, 2003, p. 37-92
* Baury, Ghislain, « Los ricoshombres y el rey en Castilla : El linaje Haro, 1076-1322 », ''Territorio, Sociedad y Poder : Revista de Estudios Medievales'', 6, 2011, p. 53-72
* Baury, Ghislain, « La grande aristocratie et le système judiciaire dans le royaume de Castille (XIIe-XIIIe s.). Les sentences des ricoshombres du lignage Haro », Bruno Lemesle et Benoît Garnot (dir.), ''Autour de la sentence judiciaire du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine'', Dijon, EUD, 2012, , p. 239-248.
* Baury, Ghislain, ''Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles'', Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012, {{ISBN, 978-2-7535-2051-6.
See also
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Basque señoríos
The Basque ''jaurerriak'' or ''señoríos'' (literally, the Basque lordships) were a series of feudal territories that came into existence in the Basque Country in the Middle Ages. The lordships were hereditary land titles over territories of v ...
Spanish families