Órbigo Hospital is a place at St. James on the Paramo Leones in the province of León Castile-León. The
Paramo Leon is a section of the plateau on which gathered in front of the basic land improvement, the melt water from the surrounding mountains and flowed slowly over many small streams. The town was then on the water and took its name from a 200 m long bridge over former swampland and small channels of the Río Órbigo.
was famous Puente de Orbigo by an event during the Holy Year 1434, the so-called Paso Suero de Quinones of Honroso.
There are three stories, how did the fight:
The most common version: Quiñones would have sworn the love of a certain lady to break around the St. Jacob (25th July) of 1434, 300 lances. He got the royal permission, went with ten comrades on the bridge of the Orbigo, the almost all pilgrims had to pass, and called for the passing noblemen to knightly combat. This demand could not escape prevailing required under the code of honor '. Upon completion of the tournament, which was only a gentleman to death, should challengers and opponents are drawn together to Santiago de Compostela, the shrine of St. James. Quiñones donated his ankle - a necklace of conscious lady - the Kathedralschatz, there she is visiting today. The family of
Quiñones - a powerful noble family - would want to put their tournament with such a large economic power and performance capabilities.
Suero de Quinones was sentenced shortly before and had to pay a deposit if he did not want to serve his punishment by imprisonment. Because he did not have possessed the necessary money, he tried by Weglagerei a bottleneck of the path to obtain. Wall-propelled nobles traveled only with light weapons, so for Quiñones and his comrades, the risk was calculated.
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