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192:(1158–1214). He played a decisive role in the rise of the Haro dynasty, as well as in the construction of the nobiliary identity of his group, who was to dominate the Castilian political society during the whole 13th century. A publicity strife around this key figure between his successors and the monarchy, in a moment of deep political troubles, led to the elaboration of his dark image and his golden legend at the end of the 13th century, and the invention of his opposite nicknames.
362:, finally imagined the nickname "the Bad" to explain the contradictions in his biography. His memory suffered later other deformations, according to the interests of the 16th-century genealogists working for the nobility, and, from the 17th century on, of Basque historians. This time, it was the myth of the "independent seigneury" of Biscaya that was at stake between Basque fuerists and later nationalists, and their contradictors, until the first half of the 20th century.
213:. Thus he left Castile, but the good fortune of his family in León did not survive the king's death, the following year. He retained sufficient credit in Castile to negotiate his return with favorable conditions: he was given back the office of alférez and all his governments. In charge of the rearguard, he took part in 1195 in the
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acknowledged his ownership of the whole of
Bizcaya, a Basque territory his ancestors had ruled back in the 11th century. This instrument may have meant the definitive conversion of this government into an inalienable fief, that would be the territorial basis of the Haro during the whole 13th century.
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His first exile of 1179-1183 allowed his to recover the territories his father had ruled, La Rioja, Old
Castile and Trasmiera. He also obtained Asturias (of Santillana) and the Bureba. After his second exile, he extended even more his area of influence in Northeastern Castile, to the point of ruling
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definitely turned the biography of Diego López II into a myth. This author relates episodes allegedly historical, but similar to well known literary themes from
Brittany (Arthurian romances) and French epic. He converted him into an ambiguous character, in a pseudo-historical attempt to synthesize
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of
Castile-León, in nobiliary rebellions ever more open, intellectuals from the court denigrated the reputation of Diego López "said the Good", to whom the responsibility of the defeat of Alarcos was for the first time attributed. Writers supporting the Haros invented in this period an equivalent
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He did not attend the royal court with any regularity before 1178, maybe because of the influence exerted by the magnates of the Lara family. Between 1179 and 1183, he went into exile in
Navarra. He went back to the Castilian court in a strong position, obtaining the office of
328:, Toledo's archbishop, who had known him personally, was already very ambiguous. He criticized his exile strategy that led him to face his king on the battlefield. The tombs of Diego López and of his wife Toda Pérez, in the cloister of knights of the
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Diego López II strengthened the part of the head of family among his clan, permitting the shift from the "horizontal" conception of kinship to the "vertical" system of dynasty. He was the first of his family to use an
205:, standard bearer, one of the two most prestigious with that of great major-domo. The rise of his parents in the neighboring kingdom of León let him catch sight of better opportunities in 1187, when his sister
225:. He went into exile a third time between 1201 and 1206, offering his services to Navarra and León. He had nevertheless made himself indispensable for the Castilian sovereign. In his first will, in 1206,
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Baury, Ghislain, « Diego López 'le bon' et Diego López 'le mauvais' : comment s'est construite la mémoire d'un magnat du règne d'Alphonse VIII de
Castille »,
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332:, were both realized during the second half of the 13th century. They bear testimony of the specific interest of the Haros for this founder ancestor. During 1270–1280, when
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was trying to play a political role, the royal chancellery issued a charter judging him a bad lord. Diego López's image constructed around 1240–1241 by the chronicler
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myth to justify Diego López II's attitude and to charge the monarchy. The story of the Jewish girl from Toledo, which explains the rout at
Alarcos with the sins of
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Ghislain Baury, "Diego López 'le bon' et Diego López 'le mauvais' : comment s'est construite la mémoire d'un magnat du règne d'Alphonse VIII de
Castille",
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recognized having wronged the magnate, and tried to repair the damages. When Diego López decided to come back in
Castile in 1206,
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188:, count of Nájera (b. 1126–1170) and of countess Aldonza. He was a first rank magnate in the kingdom of Castile under King
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283:. He took a decisive step towards the patrimonialization of many of those governments, sharing them with his elder son,
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345:, appeared towards the end of the 13th century. During 1340, the books of the Portuguese count Pedro de Barcelos, the
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Diego López II's memory quickly underwent attacks. As soon as 1216, during the regency of the Lara brothers, when
287:. Lope thus received the governments of Old Castile in 1210, Asturias de Santillana in 1211, and Álava en 1213.
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named Diego López one of his five executors. In 1212, the king entrusted to him one of his three armies in the
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María Díaz – married count Gonzalo Núñez de Lara (died 1225).
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434:Mencía Díaz – married Alvaro Díaz de los Cameros.
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411:Aldonza Díaz – married Ruy Díaz de los Cameros.
196:Role at Alfonso VIII's court and exile strategy
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223:Álvaro Núñez de Lara
148:Lope Díaz II de Haro
131:Toda Pérez de Azagra
73:Lope Díaz II de Haro
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418:Teresa Díaz de Haro
351:Livros de linhagens
304:Mythified character
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63:Lope Díaz I de Haro
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251:al-Andalus
358:, in his
338:Alfonso X
126:Spouse(s)
69:Successor
54:1170–1214
349:and the
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247:Almohads
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259:Henry I
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182:the Bad
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