NOVELTY

The head of King Don Pedro

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By AndaluNet on 13/03/2018

King Don Pedro, I of Castile, It is a curious and ambiguous example of justice. He was known as Peter the Justiciero, although other was known as Pedro the Cruel. After reading this text you can draw your own conclusions.

Legend has it that one night Don Pedro went for a walk through the streets of Seville, unescorted and keeping his face with his cloak. Consequently some say, a rush of discussion with the mayor of Seville Sunday Cerón. Who boasted that no crime was committed in Sevilla unpunished. And the king Don Pedro wanted to check.

She was walking Don Pedro when he suddenly ran into Don Luis de Guzman. A noble son of the Count of Niebla, family of the Guzmanes. He is supporting the aspirations to the throne of the king's bastard brother. Such was the clash and words exchanged between them triggered a sword fight. Leaving the victorious King Don Pedro.

In the silence of the night, it seemed that such altercation had been hidden. Except for a neighbor who was a spectator from his window all the facts. Fearful of being discovered by neighbor Knights, was introduced in the house with the misfortune of dropping his lantern on the street near the corpse had left mourning. The worried old woman returned to look out the window. They may hear a strange noise like two nuts crashing.

King Don Pedro came out scared to hurry, without realizing that the old woman had heard so characteristic noise made by his legs when he was.

The next day, guilty of such an offense and the king's mouth demanded Don Pedro came these words: -When it finds the culprit, I'll put your head in the place of death”. A day word spread that an elderly woman had witnessed such a death and was taken in the presence of the mayor of Seville and the king ran. The old woman, I had identified the culprit when he heard the noise made by the king's legs while walking, He refused to talk. Until King Don Pedro turned to her and said,: -Tell us whom you saw in mourning and will not happen anything. The old lady decided to confess after hearing those words, a mirror that had looked into the room and said,: – Mr, through that window, if it asomáis, you will see the person who killed Don Luis de Guzman.

A few days, Sevilla was carrying a car for a wooden box whose lid was nailed shut, accompanied by a crier who stated that in case the head of the man who killed Don Luis Rey mandated was. And no one dared open or end his life with death penalty. That box was placed inside the front of the house into a hole that had been done on one of the walls and was protected by a fence.

Years passed and King Don Pedro was killed. The news came to hate the family of the Guzmanes, who rushed to Sevilla to take power. One of the first mandates of Guzman was open the wooden box where the head of the murderer of Don Luis was, hoping his identity. The surprise was to find in the box a marble statue of the head of King Don Pedro. All were shocked and furious.

King Don Pedro kept his promise to place the head of the murderer, but half. Currently in the same house where the wooden box was, in the old street Candilejo, is a bust of King Don Pedro giving name to the street “Head of King Don Pedro”.

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