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Lecture by Eduardo Juárez Valero on "Myth, legend and history in the story of Isabel I of Castile: the Catholic queen in the lands of Segovia."

On December 13, 1473, the then princess of Castile, Isabel de Trastámara y Avís, was proclaimed queen by acclamation of the knights of Segovia in the church of San Miguel, thus beginning a reign that would significantly affect the course of human history. Those proclaimers and their community, who opened an essential door to understanding the current world, thus culminated a relationship with Isabel de Castilla that has rarely been analyzed in local terms, of the benefit and discredit of a common that was essential in the rise of a woman and the construction of an eternal and unquestionable character.

Eduardo Juárez Valero: born in 1968 in the Royal Site of San Ildefonso, has a PhD in Geography and History, is a teacher and writer. He is a professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation at the Carlos III University of Madrid, secretary of the Department of Library Science and Documentation and Deputy Vice-Dean for Quality. He collaborates with UNED, the Ortega-Marañón Foundation and INISEG. He has published twenty books, more than forty scientific publications, including the award-winning Chronicles of a Royal Site (HG Editores, 2015) and more than three hundred articles in El Adelantado de Segovia, Adiós Cultural, El Día de Segovia, Historia de National Geographic, Muy Historia or Mundo Medieval. Since 2014 he has participated in different programs on Radio Televisión Española and Televisión Castilla y León. In 2012 he was appointed by the plenary session of the Excmo. City Council first Official Chronicler of the Royal Site of San Ildefonso and in 2015 member of the advisory board of the Biosphere Reserve of the Royal Site of San Ildefonso-El Espinar.