{"id":6395,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/valladolid-and-the-displacement-of-the-court\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:01","slug":"valladolid-and-the-displacement-of-the-court","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/duke-of-lerma\/valladolid-and-the-displacement-of-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Valladolid and the displacement of the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Valladolid and the displacement of the court <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0936_226x340.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Iglesia de San Pablo\" align=\"left\">One of the most effective demonstrations of force on the part of the Duke of Lerma was the displacement of the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/valladolid\/the-church-of-san-pablo\/court\/\" title=\"Court\">court<\/a>, which he strongly supported, from <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/alcala-de-henares\/the-ermita-del-cristo-de-los-doctrinos\/madrid\/\" title=\"Madrid\">Madrid<\/a> to <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/valladolid\/the-church-of-san-pablo\/valladolid\/\" title=\"Valladolid\">Valladolid<\/a>. The city chosen by <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/alcala-de-henares\/the-ermita-del-cristo-de-los-doctrinos\/philip-ii-of-habsburg\/\" title=\"Philip II of Habsburg\">Philip II<\/a> as the permanent seat of the court, namely Madrid, had long suffered from some problems, above all of overpopulation and growing urban chaos. However, the decision to move the the court to a city, Valladolid, which soon proved too small and ill-equipped for such a task, was mainly due to the will of the king&#8217;s favorite. Valladolid, in fact, was very close to the Castilian possessions of the Duke, including <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/duke-of-lerma\/lerma-and-the-beginning-of-the-valimiento\/lerma\/\" title=\"Lerma\">Lerma<\/a> itself, and the <em>valido<\/em> could rely on an extensive network of contacts in the cities along the Pisuerga river. <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/duke-of-lerma\/valladolid-and-the-displacement-of-the-court\/rodrigo-calderon\/\" title=\"Rodrigo Calder\u00f3n\">Rodrigo Calder\u00f3n<\/a>, for example, was a native of Valladolid, one of the closest and most loyal clients of the Duke. In the years spent away from Madrid (1601-1606), Lerma was able to isolate the king even more from the court, by controlling access to building and also limiting contact between the king and those members of the royal family who had shown themselves to be most hostile, above all Empress <a href=\"#\" class=\"tooltip yellow-tooltip\">Maria of Habsburg<span>The daughter of Charles V and Philip II &#8216;s sister, Mary of Habsburg (1528-1603) was the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire as the wife of his cousin Maximilian II. The mother of sixteen children, including the emperors Rudolf II and Matthias, she returned to Spain after her husband&#8217;s death (which occurred in 1576). She lived the last part of her life in the convent of the <em>Descalzas Reales<\/em> in Madrid, however, exerting a great influence on his brother Philip II and her grandson Philip III.<\/span><\/a> and the wife of the king herself, <a href=\"#\" class=\"tooltip yellow-tooltip\">Margaret of Habsburg<span>Margaret of Habsburg (1584-1611) was the daughter of Charles II of Styria, the third son of Emperor Ferdinand I. She was married by proxy in Ferrara with Philip III of Spain, in 1599. She died soon after giving birth to her eighth child. Among his heirs were the future Philip IV of Spain, the <em>infantes<\/em> Carlos and Fernando, the future queen of France Anne of Austria and the future empress Maria Anna von Habsburg .<\/span><\/a>. Before the court returned to Madrid in 1606, Lerma represented the <em>nuevo estilo de grandeza<\/em> that characterized public life under <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/the-royal-palace\/philip-iii-of-habsburg\/\" title=\"Philip III of Habsburg\">Philip III<\/a> compared to the years of monastic austerity during the last years of the reign of Philip II. The two main occasions of celebration and Baroque flourish in which Lerma could take up a prominent public role in courtly life in 1605: the baptism of the prince, the future <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/ascanio-filomarino\/filomarino-and-the-masaniello-revolt\/philip-iv-of-habsburg\/\" title=\"Philip IV of Habsburg\">Philip IV<\/a>, and the visit of the Earl of Nottingham, who arrived to ratify the peace treaty signed between the Spanish monarchy and the Crown of England the previous year. (photo: the church of <em>San<\/em> <em>Pablo<\/em>, Valladolid).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/duke-of-lerma\/lerma-and-the-beginning-of-the-valimiento\/\" title=\"Lerma and the beginning of the valimiento\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;previous page<\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/duke-of-lerma\/ventosilla-the-plaza-de-san-pablo-and-the-casa-de-la-ribera\/\" title=\"Ventosilla, the Plaza de San Pablo and the Casa de la Ribera\"> next page&#8212;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valladolid and the displacement of the court One of the most effective demonstrations of force on the part of the Duke of Lerma was the displacement of the court, which he strongly supported, from Madrid to Valladolid. 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