Description
A candle on an oak table, a tintero with a pen and a half-write piece of paper. A figure draws attention to the rest of the room dedicated to the Manrique family on the second floor of the tower of tribute in the castle of Segura. Jorge Manrique is a character closely linked to Segura de la Sierra. If we were to imagine the poet in front of the paper, we might think that the text might start like this: "remind me to be very noble, Mr. Brother, having once said, in they are closer to mockery, you will see if you wanted me to write something about the work of the Montaria."
These lines correspond to the Treaty of the Mountain, studied by the Duke of Almazan, a document that some researchers attribute to Jorge Manrique. To talk about the 15th century in the Sierra de Segura is to talk about the Manrique family and the border period. A situation in which attacks and responses by Christians and Muslims were frequent. This danger and the border situation can only be seen by entering Segura de la Sierra: remains of walls, towers, entrance doors and on top of the hill, the watchful castle.
The Visits Books of the Order of Santiago described in the late 15th century the castle of Segura de la Sierra as a military compound with weapons to face a siege or, if necessary, to organize a village to attack the enemy. We cannot forget that in 1434 Rodrigo Manrique organized a village to conquer Huécar in the Altiplano granadino.
In Segura de la Sierra, taking advantage of this privileged position and under the security offered by its walls is where Jorge Manrique was raised under the care of his mother, Mrs. Mencía de Figueroa, in the house that still today is preserved five hundred years later.
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