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El Carpio is a city located in the province of Córdoba, Spain. According to the 2006
El Carpio
– Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain) {{Andalusia-geo-stub
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
( INE), the city has a population of 4,477 inhabitants.
History
El Carpio was tied to theKingdom of Castile
The Kingdom of Castile (; : ) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile (, ), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of León. During the 10th century, the Ca ...
as early as the 1300s when the Señorio del Castillo de Carpio was founded in 1325 by Garcí Méndez II de Sotomayor
García Méndez de Sotomayor or Garcí Méndez II de Sotomayor, the second of his name (1280 – ?) was a Kingdom of Castile, Castilian noble and head of the House of Méndez de Sotomayor, Méndez branch of the House of Sotomayor who founded the ...
.
The Señorio del Castillo de Carpio was elevated to the level of the Marquesado del Carpio granted by King Philip II of Spain
Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent (), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and List of Sicilian monarchs, Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He ...
in 1559. The title was bestowed upon Diego Lopez de Haro y Sotomayor on 20 January 1559 in recognition of his services to the crown. Grandeeship was conferred onto the Marquesado by King Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV (, ; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: ''Rey Planeta''), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the ...
in 1640 which was granted to Diego de Haro y Haro, V Marques del Carpio and Conde de Morente.
See also
* Señorio del Castillo de Carpio * Marquesado del Carpio *List of municipalities in Córdoba
Córdoba is a province in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 77 municipalities. Spanish census, Córdoba is the 20th largest of the 50 provinces by population, with inhabitants, and the 13th largest by land ...
References
External links
El Carpio
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