Paso Honroso

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Medieval bridge Puente de Órbigo
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The Paso Honoroso was a knightly duel to which the Leonese knight Suero de Quiñones challenged all pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela on the bridge of Hospital de Órbigo between July 10 and August 9, 1434 . It is said that Don Suero rode 300 lances and never lost a duel.

background

There are three accounts of how the fight came about:

  • The most widespread version: Quiñones would have sworn out of love for a certain lady to break 300 lances around the day of St. James (July 25th) of the year 1434 . He got the royal permission, went with ten comrades to the bridge of Orbigo, which almost all pilgrims had to pass, and challenged the passing nobles to a knightly duel. Due to the prevailing code of honor, those demanded could not avoid this demand. At the end of the tournament, in which only one nobleman was killed, the challenger and opponent are said to have moved together to Santiago de Compostela to the shrine of the Apostle James . Quiñones donated his fetter - a necklace of the conscious lady - to the cathedral treasure, where it can still be viewed today.
  • The Quiñones family - a powerful aristocratic family - would have wanted to prove their power and economic efficiency with such a large tournament.
  • Suero de Quiñones had recently been convicted and had to pay bail if he did not want to serve his sentence by imprisonment. But because he did not have the necessary money, he tried to get it by stowing away at a bottleneck on the way. Pilgrim noblemen traveled only with light armament, so that the risk for Quiñones and his comrades in arms was calculable.

revival

For several years there have been jousting games again in Hospital de Órbigo. For this purpose, a fighting track was laid below the famous bridge, on which the descendants of Don Suero cross the lances every summer, while knights waving colored cloths from the stands or throwing them to the contestant of their choice.

literature

  • Horst Baader : The literary fortunes of the Spanish knight Suero de Quiñones (= treatises of the humanities and social science class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1959, No. 7).