Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Jerez de los Caballeros

Today: Spain

Years
1492–1833
Role
Town of the Order of Santiago's province of León

The 16th century was a time of growth: monumental buildings multiplied and, between about 1523 and 1526, Carlos I gave it the title of Very Noble and Very Loyal City; 172 of its people, Vasco Núñez de Balboa among them, took part in the conquest of America. The 17th and 18th centuries were a time of decline and poverty, made worse by Portugal's independence in 1640, and the Portuguese invaded the town in 1706, 1710 and 1711.

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