Villamorón is a town located in the province of Burgos, autonomous community of Castilla y León (Spain), region of Odra-Pisuerga, Páramos, municipality of Villegas. It has a population of two inhabitants (INE, 2012). In 2010 it was one of the nineteen towns in the province of Burgos in which only one inhabitant lived.
Although there are testimonies of previous human occupation, Villamorón must have been born at the end of the 9th century, at which time Count Diego Rodríguez Porcelos allowed this border area of the kingdom of Asturias to be repopulated, a foundation made by Mauronta and his Cantabrian people in the mountains. de Santillana (c.860), then called Villa de Mauronta.
In the thirteenth century there are references to Villamorón in the Bishopric's Book of Loans: the amounts that appear in that book suggest that the town would have 40 residents.
In the Book of Behetrías of the year 1350, the nobleman Sancho Ruiz de Villegas "the first" - knight of the Royal Band of the Band since 1332, second-born of Ruy Pérez de Villegas "the first" and brother of the Adelantado is cited as Villamorón's benefactor. Major of Castile and knight of La Banda, Pedro Ruiz de Villegas "the second" who was ordered to assassinate by King Pedro I of Castile - and to whom the neighbors paid for his protection twelve bushels of mediated bread and two maravedíes, those who had two or more oxen and, the rest, 3 bushels of barley and a maravedí.
At the end of the 16th century, Villamorón and Villegas appeared as a single legal entity, the closed behetria (c. 1400), inherited by the nobleman Pedro Díaz de Villegas (and his successors), being the third male child of the Merino Mayor of Castilla, Ruy Pérez de Villegas "the second", thus moving away from the mayorazgo of the House of Villegas. This union lasted in 1752, according to the data provided by the cadastre of the Marquis de la Ensenada, when Villegas-Villamorón was declared a royal town.
In this same cadastre, Villegas and Villamorón appear as separate neighborhoods of the same legal unit. It is also assured that most of its territory was dedicated to rainfed cultivation. Villamorón was one of the fourteen that formed the Municipality of Burgos, during the period between 1785 and 1833. In the Census of Floridablanca of 1787 it appears as a royal jurisdiction.
Emigration has ended up depopulating Villamorón in the second half of the 20th century. Read More
Distance between:
Madrid to Villamorón144 Miles / 231 Kms Barcelona to Villamorón328 Miles / 529 Kms
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