Talk:Alonso Pérez de Guzmán

Guzman El Bueno's Religion
Recent evidence unearthed in the family archives by the late Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, suggest that Guzman El Bueno was actually a Muslim, and may have been born in the Moorish territories across the Straits of Gibraltar.

Essentially, this page is far from complete. I thereby call upon historians to help out. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.32.129.241 (talk) 23:36, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * This seems like a stretch. To be a vassal, is just a recognition of status and obligation within the feudal system. It doesn't mean that he was not a subject of a Christian king. And just because grain didn't grow where he came from doesn't prove he was from North Africa. He could be from an arid region of North Africa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.121.233 (talk) 23:07, 5 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I broadly agree with the previous comment. There is no solid evidence that he is a non-Spaniard, as distinct from a non-Castilian (which is precisely what one would expect if he was from the Kingdom of Leon, assuming it still existed at the time), and that is not because he is a vassal of the King of Castile, but because he needs a license to send wheat to 'where he is from'. To the best of my recollection of the program (which I just saw for the second time on More 4 a few hours ago), even the late Duchess did not claim that 'vassal' meant non-Spaniard, merely that Moors were often vassals of Christian kings. There is no solid evidence that the place where he is from is usually arid and wheatless (as the Duchess claimed), merely that it was somewhat short of wheat in that particular year. Thus there is no solid evidence that he is 'probably from Morocco'. There seems to be much evidence that he is not from Morocco, namely that he seemingly spent much time serving a Castilian King and fighting the Moors, and is famous throughout Spain for having done so. Bettany Hughes says almost every Spanish city has something named in his honour - her contention seems to be that this is all wrong, but she only offers the Duchess's thoroughly dubious interpretation of those two documents in support of her apparent contention. Thus all the stuff about him being a Moor should either be dropped, or be re-written as mere claims by the late Duchess, perhaps adding that they are implicitly supported by Bettany Hughes (and probably also to some extent explicitly, though my memory may be faulty on that). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlhslobus (talk • contribs) 07:59, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

The article on the Kingdom Of Leon indicates that in 1288 Leon had been joined to Castile since 1230, but whether this would get rid of the need for an export license might well depend on the precise terms of the union. The license itself seems odd - why would a genuine export license say 'to where I am from' instead of 'to Leon', or 'to Morocco', or 'to anywhere outside Castile'? Maybe it's a rather amateurish later forgery, perhaps as part of a larger batch of such forgeries by people wishing to have documentary 'proof' of their descent from Guzman, to 'prove' their glorious noble ancestry, their ancient Christian lineage, or whatever. That possibility would make it even more irrelevant as 'evidence' that Guzman was a Moor. Tlhslobus (talk) 10:02, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * -I note there is a roughly 60-year gap between the death of Guzman in 1309, and the appearance of the first Count Of Niebla, the first 'noble' ancestor of the later Dukes of Medina-Sidonia, described as c1369, and 'no later than 8 june 1369'. The 'c' and the 'no later than' suggest there is something dubious about the origin of the title - that there is no clear documentary evidence of a King ever having created the title. This 60 year gap and this dubiousness would make it seem all the more likely that someone in that 'noble' line needed to create some sort of forged pedigree, thus making it all the more likely that the alleged export license is a forgery and worthless as 'evidence' concerning Guzman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlhslobus (talk • contribs) 09:44, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * -That might imply that Guzman should actually be described as merely the claimed ancestor of the Dukes of Medina - Sidonia, but such a description is presumably not allowed under Wikipedia's rules banning original research, and the above remarks are thus presumably only relevant to whether it is valid to describe the alleged license as 'evidence' that Guzman was a Moor. Tlhslobus (talk) 10:02, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Dates of the defence of Tarifa
1294 or 1296? There is some discrepancy between this article, Castle of Zahara de los Atunes and Palace of Jadraza and Zahara de los Atunes which I do not know how to resolveTimpo (talk) 08:48, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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Origin
This article's presentation of his origin is in need of revision, relying heavily on Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, who is not accepted as a historian meriting confidence. According to Wiki.es page on Alonso, she also claimed he was born in America. I am not familiar enough on modern thinking among scholars, but the Duchess should not be taken as face value, nor sensationalistic journalism based on her theories. Agricolae (talk) 17:59, 27 August 2019 (UTC)