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The charter of Castrojeriz

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The charter of Castrojeriz

Historical milestone · Castrojeriz, Odra-Pisuerga, Burgos

Count García Fernández granted in 974 a fuero (charter) held to be the first in Castile, which put peasants capable of keeping a horse and weapons on equal footing with knights: faced with the Muslim threat on the county's frontiers, the count broadened his social base with these ordinances on the caballeros villanos (commoner knights) of Castrojeriz, whereby peasants who had a horse for war became equal in status to the infanzones, the lower-ranking nobility. The document was signed in the town itself on 8 March 974. The town was declared a historic-artistic ensemble in 1974.

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