Realeza - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:32:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Realeza - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Royal reeds in honour of the royal wedding of the kings of the Two Sicilies https://historylab.es/royal-reeds-in-honour-of-the-royal-wedding-of-the-kings-of-the-two-sicilies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-reeds-in-honour-of-the-royal-wedding-of-the-kings-of-the-two-sicilies Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/canas-reales-en-honor-al-casamiento-real-de-los-reyes-de-las-dos-sicilias/ Festivities organised for the wedding of the kings of the Two Sicilies: Charles of Bourbon and Maria Amelia Cristina, with a bullfight at the Maestranza. Seville (1738).

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]]> The image shows the poster for the Cañas Reales, which were organised at the Real Maestranza in Seville on 24 October 1738 to celebrate the marriage between the kings of the Two Sicilies: Charles of Bourbon, the future Charles III, and Maria Amalia Christina of Saxony. The bullfighting and bullfighting festivities were a mixture of military exercises and bullfighting on horseback, which served as an entertainment spectacle, but also to keep the nobles who formed part of the armies in shape. These festivities, as well as taking place in the Reales Maestranzas, were usually held in the main squares of the cities, the parade grounds of the castles or in palenques specially set up for the occasion, and were held all over the kingdom. On occasions, bullfights were quite bloody due to the number of people who were injured or lost their lives, which is why they were questioned and sometimes banned, as happened in the second half of the 16th century after the Pope banned bullfighting festivals. At the beginning of the 17th century bullfighting festivals reappeared again, and it was with Philip IV that they reached their splendour, being held to celebrate important events such as weddings and royal births, military victories or other great events. From the 19th century onwards, the celebration of these spectacles became less frequent.

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]]> John of Austria, the hero of Lepanto https://historylab.es/john-of-austria-the-hero-of-lepanto/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-of-austria-the-hero-of-lepanto Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/juan-de-austria-el-heroe-de-lepanto/ Explanatory video on John of Austria, son of Charles V

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]]> This 12-minute video tells the story of John of Austria, illegitimate son of Charles V, who was a royal, military and diplomatic figure during the reign of his paternal brother, King Philip II.

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]]> Joanna The Mad (Historical Rap) https://historylab.es/joanna-the-mad-historical-rap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=joanna-the-mad-historical-rap Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/juana-la-loca-rap-historico/ Video about Joanna The Mad

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]]> Video in which rap is used to bring us closer to the historical figure of Joanna I of Castile, known as “la Loca” (1479-1555). She was Queen of Castile from 1504 to 1555, and of Aragon and Navarre from 1516 to 1555, although from 1506 she did not exercise any effective power and from 1509 she lived locked up in Tordesillas, first by order of her father, Ferdinand the Catholic, and later by order of his son, King Charles I.

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