The House of
Haro was one of the most powerful families of
Castile during the Middle Ages, which strongly supported the
expansionist
Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism.
In the classical age of conquest moral justification for territorial expansion at the direct expense of another established polity (who ...
policies of
Alfonso VI of Castile. As a reward,
Íñigo López was named the first
Lord of Biscay
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.
In the early 16th century, the Haro family married paternally into the
House of Sotomayor establishing a branch that would go on to hold dominion over the
Marquesado del Carpio established in 1559 by King
Philip II of Spain
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Bibliography
* Salazar y Castro, Luis, ''Historia genealógica de la Casa de Haro'', Dalmiro de la Válgoma y Díaz-Varela, Madrid, 1959.
* Baury, Ghislain, "Diego López 'le bon' et Diego López 'le mauvais' : comment s'est construite la mémoire d'un magnat du règne d'Alphonse VIII de Castille", ''Berceo'', n°144, 2003, p. 37-92
* Baury, Ghislain, « Los ricoshombres y el rey en Castilla : El linaje Haro, 1076-1322 », ''Territorio, Sociedad y Poder : Revista de Estudios Medievales'', 6, 2011, p. 53-72
* Baury, Ghislain, « La grande aristocratie et le système judiciaire dans le royaume de Castille (XIIe-XIIIe s.). Les sentences des ricoshombres du lignage Haro », Bruno Lemesle et Benoît Garnot (dir.), ''Autour de la sentence judiciaire du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine'', Dijon, EUD, 2012, , p. 239-248.
* Baury, Ghislain, ''Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles'', Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012, {{ISBN, 978-2-7535-2051-6.
See also
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Basque señoríos
Spanish families