Castle of Good Love
The Castle of Good Love (Castillo de Buen Amor) is also known as Castillo Villanueva de Canedo or Fonseca Castle. It was originally a military fortress and the first reports date back to 1227 AD, when Alfonso IX of Leon swap this place, with santiaguista knight Don Enrique de Sardina by the inheritance of Ortazas in Ciudad Rodrigo.
In 1447 it belonged to the Count of Alba de Tormes, in 1476, and being Duke of Alba, delivered the town of Villanueva de Canedo with its castle to the Catholic Monarchs in exchange for that of San Felices Gallegos, as one more episode within the struggles and intrigues capitulations gotten in Castilla during the troubled succession of Enrique IV.
Popular legend called Castle palace as Good Love it to become the property of the Archbishop of Santiago Don Alonso de Fonseca and his mistress Maria de Ulloa. However, recent studies reveal that the architect of the Gothic work was his namesake and last name Don Alonso de Fonseca Jaw, cousin of the Archbishop and Bishop of Cuenca, Avila and Osma (it was purchased in 1477 by Alfonso Valencia, who They had donated the Catholic Monarchs a year earlier in reward for having given you the city of Zamora, during the civil war for succession to the throne of Castile in Isabel La Catolica and Juana la Beltraneja faced). Bishop Fonseca turned the castle into his palace where he lived with his lover also, Dona Teresa de las Cuevas, with whom he had four children: Gutierrez, Fernando, Ana and Isabel. The Gutierrez was born legitimized by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 beneficiary of primogeniture by decision of Alonso few years before he died.
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