''Santa Gadea'' () is a church dedicated to
Saint Agatha
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in
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populous municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of th ...
,
Spain
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. The church is famous in history and literature for being the site where Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (
El Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve i ...
) at the behest of the
Castilian Cortes
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* Cortes (surname), including a list of people with the name
** Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), a Spanish conquistador
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, forced
Alfonso VI
Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...
to swear an oath that he was not an accomplice in the death of his brother,
Sancho
The name Sancho () is an Iberian name of Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius. Feminine forms of the name are Sancha, Sancia, and Sanchia (), and the common patronymic is Sánchez and ...
while he was besieging
Zamora.
''Es el de la jura de Santa Gadea'' is the most notable Spanish medieval
romance
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* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
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about this event.
The church today is not the same as it was at the time of the swearing of the , but the place where the event took place is nevertheless marked by an inscription on a plate, positioned on the outside wall beside the church door.
Notes
External links
A page which explains the history of the Oath and the dynastic and military battles behind it.
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Roman Catholic churches in Burgos