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THE ORIGIN OF EXPRESSION "WHO WAS LOST HIS CHAIR TO SEVILLE"

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By on 05/03/2020

You're sitting with your friends or family, you wake up one moment to the service and when you return ... you have removed the site. I've seen this situation many times and, surely, if I ever told you that testifiedst of "Who went to Sevilla lost his chair“. Want to know theorigin of this expression? Well, do not get up from where you are (just in case) and read:

The phrase, initially, era “Who left Sevilla, he lost his seat“, but over the years it has been transformed into which we use today. The explanation of this expression is found during the reign of Henry IV of Castile (XV century). Archbishop of Seville at that time, Alonso III Fonseca, She had a nephew that he had been awarded the Archbishopric of Santiago de Compostela. Given the tension that existed at that time in Galicia, the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela he asked his uncle to calm the situation somewhat. Alonso de Fonseca agreed to go there as he left his nephew taking his place in Seville. When he could control the situation but returned to Sevilla, to his surprise, his nephew was now refused to restore his position as archbishop.

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