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5 unusual facts about Comunero


Comunero

Villalar de los Comuneros, a small town in Castile and León where the Battle of Villalar took place.

Sociedad de los Caballeros Comuneros ("Society of Comunero Knights"), a secret society in Spain from 1821–1823 during the Trienio Liberal.

Revolt of the Comuneros, a rebellion in Castile against King Charles I (also known as Emperor Charles V) from 1520–1521.

Comunera Province, a province in Santander Department where the Revolt of the Comuneros in New Granada took place.

Ruy López de Dávalos

Hernando Dávalos made part of the well documented Toledo "Comuneros" fighting against the extra tax contributions, circa 1518, asked for by king Charles I of Spain (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) to bend the wishes of the German Electors in his wishes of becoming a Holy Roman Emperor.


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Battle of Villalar

The commander of the comunero armies, Juan de Padilla, considered withdrawing to Toro to seek reinforcements in early April, but wavered.

John Phelan

John Leddy Phelan, Beveridge Award award-winning author of The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781


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