Junta Santa
Spanish history
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role of Padilla
- In Juan de Padilla
…and clergy, set up the Junta Santa (a revolutionary junta) there in July 1520, Padilla was named captain general of its forces, and on August 29 he took Tordesillas, thereby assuring the junta’s control over Charles’s mother, the hereditary queen Joan the Mad, who had been living there since she…
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