Wamba, Valladolid
Wamba is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León.[2] The municipality spans across a total area of 38.16 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 310.[2]
Location
It lies on the southeast part of the shire of Montes Torozos. It borders the municipalities of Peñaflor de Hornija, Villanubla, Ciguñuela, Valladolid (for an enclave of the municipality), Castrodeza and Torrelobatón.
The settlement is located on the Camino de Santiago de Madrid, one of the variants of the Way of St James.
Toponymy
Its name comes from the Gothic King Wamba, who was elected king in that city in the year 672. At that time it was called Gérticos and King Recceswinth had a villa there resting. As Receswinth died in this town, the nobles elected Wamba immediately that day.
Notably Wamba is the only municipality in Spain whose name contains the letter w.[citation needed]
Monuments
St Mary's Church
The existence of a Visigothic church at Wamba is known: remains of its decoration are preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Valladolid. It seems likely that during the repopulation of this area after the reconquest, a then existing church from the time of Receswinth was rebuilt. The resulting building was perhaps the first Mozarabic church in the area. It has been suggested that Wamba was repopulated by people coming from the north and that for this reason St Mary's architecture is much closer to Visigothic and Asturian influences than is the contemporary church at San Cebrián de Mazote, which was repopulated by Christians who came from Al-Andalus.
From the Mozarabic church only the East End is preserved, the first installment of the naves and the entire north wall, while the rest was replaced and expanded in the late twelfth century, when Santa María de Wamba became dependent on the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Its shape was that of a rectangle 18m long by 12m wide, divided into nine areas with horseshoe arches on pillars, to which a header, the same width as the rest of the church, is joined consisting of three rectangular apses with the central apse protruding. Unlike the plan of San Cebrian, Mazote, the inner shape of the three apses is rectangular.
In the part of the church rebuilt by the Knights Hospitaller in the twelfth century, Cistercian style, we can also consider a compartment attached to the north transept, of uncertain date, covered by vaults with central column, several paintings and sculptures from different periods and an ossuary in the even that retain some of the thousands of skeletons deposited along the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries.
In the church of Santa Maria was buried the Queen Urraca of Portugal, wife of King Ferdinand II of León and mother of King Alfonso IX of León. After her marriage was annulled, she was a nun in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. In the call Chapel Queen is placed an epitaph, after the death of Queen Urraca of Portugal, which is related to that queen, daughter of Afonso I of Portugal and his wife Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal, was buried in this church.
It had a huge ossuary over 3000 skulls of monks, three quarters of these have been taken by the University for the students to use for research.
Gallery of the ossuary
See also
References
- Citations
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ a b "Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales". Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- Bibliography
- Del Arco y Garay, Richard (1954.) 'XII'. In Jerónimo Zurita Institute. Higher Council for Scientific Research. Graves of the Royal House of Castile. Madrid. p. 168.
- Elorza, John C.; Lourdes Vaquero, Belen Castillo, Marta Black (1990). Castile and León. Ministry of Culture and Social Welfare, ed. Pantheon Real de las Huelgas de Burgos. The burials of the kings of León and Castile (2nd edition). Editorial EVERGRAFICAS SA p. 57. ISBN 84-241-9999-5 .
External links
- Ayuntamiento de Wamba
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- Adalia
- Aguasal
- Aguilar de Campos
- Alaejos
- Alcazarén
- Aldea de San Miguel
- Aldeamayor de San Martín
- Almenara de Adaja
- Amusquillo
- Arroyo de la Encomienda
- Ataquines
- Bahabón
- Barcial de la Loma
- Barruelo del Valle
- Becilla de Valderaduey
- Benafarces
- Bercero
- Berceruelo
- Berrueces
- Bobadilla del Campo
- Bocigas
- Bocos de Duero
- Boecillo
- Bolaños de Campos
- Brahojos de Medina
- Bustillo de Chaves
- Cabezón de Pisuerga
- Cabezón de Valderaduey
- Cabreros del Monte
- Campaspero
- Camporredondo
- Canalejas de Peñafiel
- Canillas de Esgueva
- Carpio
- Casasola de Arión
- Castrejón de Trabancos
- Castrillo de Duero
- Castrillo-Tejeriego
- Castrobol
- Castrodeza
- Castromembibre
- Castromonte
- Castronuevo de Esgueva
- Castronuño
- Castroponce
- Castroverde de Cerrato
- Ceinos de Campos
- Cervillego de la Cruz
- Cigales
- Ciguñuela
- Cistérniga
- Cogeces de Íscar
- Cogeces del Monte
- Corcos
- Corrales de Duero
- Cubillas de Santa Marta
- Cuenca de Campos
- Curiel de Duero
- El Campillo
- Encinas de Esgueva
- Esguevillas de Esgueva
- Fombellida
- Fompedraza
- Fontihoyuelo
- Fresno el Viejo
- Fuensaldaña
- Fuente el Sol
- Fuente-Olmedo
- Gallegos de Hornija
- Gatón de Campos
- Geria
- Herrín de Campos
- Hornillos de Eresma
- Íscar
- La Mudarra
- La Parrilla
- La Pedraja de Portillo
- La Seca
- La Unión de Campos
- La Zarza
- Laguna de Duero
- Langayo
- Llano de Olmedo
- Lomoviejo
- Manzanillo
- Marzales
- Matapozuelos
- Matilla de los Caños
- Mayorga
- Medina de Rioseco
- Medina del Campo
- Megeces
- Melgar de Abajo
- Melgar de Arriba
- Mojados
- Monasterio de Vega
- Montealegre de Campos
- Montemayor de Pililla
- Moral de la Reina
- Moraleja de las Panaderas
- Morales de Campos
- Mota del Marqués
- Mucientes
- Muriel de Zapardiel
- Nava del Rey
- Nueva Villa de las Torres
- Olivares de Duero
- Olmedo
- Olmos de Esgueva
- Olmos de Peñafiel
- Palazuelo de Vedija
- Pedrajas de San Esteban
- Pedrosa del Rey
- Pesquera de Duero
- Peñafiel
- Peñaflor de Hornija
- Piña de Esgueva
- Piñel de Abajo
- Piñel de Arriba
- Pollos
- Portillo
- Pozal de Gallinas
- Pozaldez
- Pozuelo de la Orden
- Puras
- Quintanilla de Arriba
- Quintanilla de Onésimo
- Quintanilla de Trigueros
- Quintanilla del Molar
- Ramiro
- Renedo de Esgueva
- Roales de Campos
- Robladillo
- Roturas
- Rubí de Bracamonte
- Rueda
- Rábano
- Saelices de Mayorga
- Salvador de Zapardiel
- San Cebrián de Mazote
- San Llorente
- San Martín de Valvení
- San Miguel del Arroyo
- San Miguel del Pino
- San Pablo de la Moraleja
- San Pedro de Latarce
- San Pelayo
- San Román de Hornija
- San Salvador
- San Vicente del Palacio
- Santa Eufemia del Arroyo
- Santervás de Campos
- Santibáñez de Valcorba
- Santovenia de Pisuerga
- Sardón de Duero
- Serrada
- Siete Iglesias de Trabancos
- Simancas
- Tamariz de Campos
- Tiedra
- Tordehumos
- Tordesillas
- Torre de Esgueva
- Torre de Peñafiel
- Torrecilla de la Abadesa
- Torrecilla de la Orden
- Torrecilla de la Torre
- Torrelobatón
- Torrescárcela
- Traspinedo
- Trigueros del Valle
- Tudela de Duero
- Urones de Castroponce
- Urueña
- Valbuena de Duero
- Valdearcos de la Vega
- Valdenebro de los Valles
- Valdestillas
- Valdunquillo
- Valladolid
- Valoria la Buena
- Valverde de Campos
- Vega de Ruiponce
- Vega de Valdetronco
- Velascálvaro
- Velilla
- Velliza
- Ventosa de la Cuesta
- Viana de Cega
- Villabaruz de Campos
- Villabrágima
- Villabáñez
- Villacarralón
- Villacid de Campos
- Villaco
- Villafrades de Campos
- Villafranca de Duero
- Villafrechós
- Villafuerte de Esgueva
- Villagarcía de Campos
- Villagómez la Nueva
- Villalar de los Comuneros
- Villalba de la Loma
- Villalba de los Alcores
- Villalbarba
- Villalán de Campos
- Villalón de Campos
- Villamuriel de Campos
- Villanubla
- Villanueva de Duero
- Villanueva de San Mancio
- Villanueva de la Condesa
- Villanueva de los Caballeros
- Villanueva de los Infantes
- Villardefrades
- Villarmentero de Esgueva
- Villasexmir
- Villavaquerín
- Villavellid
- Villaverde de Medina
- Villavicencio de los Caballeros
- Villán de Tordesillas
- Viloria
- Wamba
- Zaratán