The Siete Partidas or simply Partidas, was a Castilian statutory code first compiled during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile, with the intent of establishing a uniform body of normative rules for the
First page of a 1555 version of the Siete Partidas, as annotated by Gregorio López.
Alfonso X of Castile
Alfonso X and his court
Codice of the Siete Partidas, in "Los Códigos Españoles Concordados y Anotados" (1872)
Alfonso X of Castile, also known as Alfonso the Wise, ruled from 1252 until 1284. One of Alfonso’s goals for his kingdom was to lift Castile out of the Dark Ages by producing a united, educated, artis
Siete Partidas
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