Agoncillo, La Rioja
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| Coordinates: 42°26′47″N 2°17′26″W / 42.44639°N 2.29056°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  La Rioja |
| Comarca | Logroño |
| Area | |
| • Total | 34.73 km2 (13.41 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 346 m (1,135 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,105 |
| Demonym | agoncillano/a or avionero/a |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CET) |
| Postal code | 26509 |
| Website | Official website  |
Agoncillo (Spanish pronunciation: [aɣonˈθiʎo]) is a town and municipality in La Rioja province in northern Spain.
Club Deportivo Agoncillo is a football team based in Agoncillo.
History[edit]
It is believed that the name comes from an ancient Celtic settlement named Egon whose ruins lie near the town. The area was also populated in Ancient Roman times.[2]
13th century[edit]
In approximately 1211, a captain of the Medrano family held the lordship of the castle and town of Agoncillo. Medrano's son was suffering from a mysterious and untreatable ailment. In 1211, Francis of Assisi roamed those very paths of Agoncillo. In a saintly manner, he visited Medrano's castle of Aguas Mansas in Agoncillo, placed his mystical hands upon the ailing Medrano boy, and miraculously healed him, securing the Medrano lineage in the lordship of Agoncillo. This act ensured the continued prominence of the Medrano family in Agoncillo, which remains renowned for its reverence toward the humble saint of Assisi.[3]
14th century[edit]
Alfonso XI of Castile granted the Lordship of Agoncillo to Sancho Sánchez de Rojas and Ursula Díaz his wife on September 1, 1336 in Lerma.[4]
In 1337, Don Rodrigo Alfonso de Medrano crossbowman of King Alfonso XI of Castile, bought the village of Agoncillo, La Rioja and the castle of Aguas Mansas. Rodrigo was the son of Rodrigo Diaz de Medrano, son of the Navarrese regent Juan Martinez de Medrano y Aibar. Medrano started carrying out several remodelling works, adapting it to the style of the 14th century. In Medrano's testament in 1345 he noted having spent big amounts of money in "...building the castle and the village" (in Old Spanish "...fazer el castillo e la villa"). During the battles between Peter the Cruel and Henry of Trastámara, the castle passed onto the hands of Charles II of Navarre, although for a short period. In 1392, it was once again owned by Rodrigo Alfonso de Medrano, lord of Agoncillo, who bequeathed it to his nephew Don Diego López de Medrano y Zuñiga.[5]
Don Diego López de Medrano y Zuñiga, lord of Agoncillo, Almarza and Fuenmayor, was the son of Don Juan Martinez de Medrano, lord of Almarza and Fuenmayor, and Aldonza de Zuñiga, sister of Juan de Zuñiga and the bishop Don Diego López de Zuñiga of Calahorra.[6] His father died in 1385 at the battle of Aljubarrota. Don Diego López de Medrano y Zuñiga is the paternal grandson of Don Juan Martinez de Medrano 'The Younger' and the great grandson of Don Juan Martínez de Medrano y Aibar 'The Elder,' regent of the Kingdom of Navarre in 1328.[7]
15th century[edit]
Diego López de Medrano y Zuñiga, lord of Agoncillo, Almarza and Fuenmayor, was part of the political clientele of Diego de Zuñiga, Bishop of Calahorra in the first half of the 15th century. The house of Medrano later alternately aligned themselves with the houses of Arellano and Manrique.[8]
Diego López de Medrano y Zúñiga married Doña Aldonza Ramírez de Ulloque, and they had a very illustrious offspring, including Juan Lopez de Medrano y Ulloque,[9] Pedro Gómez de Medrano y Ulloque and Aldonza Diaz de Medrano y Ulloque, Lady of Agoncillo.[10]
Doña Aldonza Diaz de Medrano married Lope Garcia de Porres and had one son, also lord of Agoncillo, Pedro Gomez de Porres y Medrano, Knight of the Order of Calatrava, a member of His Majesty's Council, and the Alcalde of Hijosdalgo of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid.[11][12]
In 1447, Diego López de Medrano's son Don Pedro Gómez de Medrano, bequeaths to his son Don Lope de Medrano the town of Agoncillo and San Martín de Velilla (northwest of Agoncillo).[13][14]
18th century[edit]
A certification was issued by the Council of Castile of the transfer requested by Joaquín María de Frías Salazar y Medrano, Lord of Agoncillo and Berberana, of two privileges that his grandfather Lope de Frías Salazar y Porras had presented in the lawsuit for the lordships of Agoncillo and Berberana with the Convent of Santa Clara Medina de Pomar, which obtained a favorable judgment in 1705. He also requested that the original privileges be returned.[4][15]
Aerodrome[edit]
A military aerodrome was built in Recajo, a town within Agoncillo municipal term, in 1923. It was first known as Aeródromo de Recajo, but in 1932 at the time of the Second Spanish Republic its official name was changed to Aeródromo de Agoncillo. Located about 10 km from Logroño, since 1939 it housed the Maestranza Aérea de Logroño of the Spanish Air Force with the Regimiento de Bombardeo Nº 15, Escuadrón 110 that operated Heinkel He 111 bombers[16] until the late 1950s.[17]
After the bomber squadrons were phased out, the aerodrome reverted to civilian use as the Logroño-Agoncillo Airport. It now has a smaller airstrip and houses a museum.[18]
Places of interest[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Diccionario Geográfico Universal dedicado a la Reina Nuestra Sra., Sociedad de Literatos
- ^ Revista Hidalguía número 9. Año 1955 (in Spanish). Ediciones Hidalguia. p. 181.
- ^ a b "AGONCILLO,C.1,D.78 -". PARES. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ^ AHN, Diversos, Títulos y Familias, leg. 2391.
- ^ RAH, Salazar y Castro, D-25, fol. 63 r.
- ^ "Medrano, Juan Martínez de - Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia". aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
- ^ https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/15947.pdf pgs. 570 & 573
- ^ "Juan Lopez de Medrano: geneaordonez". www.geneaordonez.es. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ "Señora de Agoncillo Aldonza Diaz de Medrano: geneaordonez". www.geneaordonez.es. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ "Señor de Agoncillo Pedro Gomez de Porres y Medrano: geneaordonez". www.geneaordonez.es. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ Medrano, Rosales y; De, Pedro (1722). "Por Don Pedro de Rosales y Medrano ... hijosdalgo de la Real Chancilleria de Valladolid, como marido ... de Dionisia Juana del Corral Villa-Real y Acuña ... con Don Bernardino de Villa-Real y Acuña , hermano los referidos y possedor del mayorazgo ... sobre pretender Don Pedro y menores se confirmen los autos ..." Don Pedro de Rosales y Medrano: Knight of the Order of Calatrava, a member of His Majesty's Council, and the Alcalde of Hijo Hidalgo of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid.
- ^ "UN CARTULARIO DE SANTA MARÍA LA REAL DE NÁJERA DEL 1209, J.CANTERA ORIVE - Biblioteca Gonzalo de Berceo". www.vallenajerilla.com. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
- ^ (Hergueta). Doc. 19
- ^ "OMNIA - Certification issued by the Council of Castile of the transfer requested by Joaquín María de Frías Salazar y Medrano, Lord of Agoncillo y Berberana, of two privileges that had been presented by his grandfather Lope de Frías Salazar y Porras in the lawsuit of tenuta by the lordships of Agoncillo and Berberana with the Convent of Santa Clara Medina de Pomar, which obtained favorable sentence of 1705. It also requests that the original privileges be returned to it. The privileges are as follows: Alfonso XI of Castile grants the Lordship of Agoncillo to Sancho Sánchez de Rojas, and Ursula Díaz his wife. 1336, September, 1. Lerma. Sancho IV grants the place of San Martín de Berberana to Juan González de Bazán. 1285, February, 20. Soria. Transfer of 1694". www.omnia.ie. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
- ^ Avionmes - Heinkel He 111
- ^ "REVISTA DE AERONÁUTICA Y ASTRONÁUTICA Nº 765 - JULIO/AGOSTO 2007 - Base logroñesa de Recajo" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
- ^ "Aircraft Museums (Overseas) Europe". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
External links[edit]
- Ayuntamiento de Agoncillo
- Aeródromo de Agoncillo (Logroño). Proyecto de la torre de mando. 1943. AHEA - sig. A 13489
42°26′47″N 2°17′26″W / 42.44639°N 2.29056°W
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