Casa de Jorge Manrique

In the village of Segura de la Sierra, among the 16th-century civil architecture is worth highlighting the well-refurbished so-called Casa de Jorge Manrique, located on a steep street that climbs from the Encomienda Plaza.

Its façade displays a semi-circular arch decorated with plant motifs, flanked by boxed pilasters and complemented by small Ionic columns. Behind a cornice, in the upper area, the stone-carved noble coat of arms of Figueroa (in field of gold, five leaves from a fig tree placed in sotuer), maternal family of Jorge Manrique, together with a Cross of Saint James, which depicts the relationship of the father, Rodrigo Manrique, with the order.

Some authors claim that the great poet was born in this house and not in Paredes de Nava (Palencia). According to Vicente Salvatierra Cuenca as cited in his book "Segura de la Sierra: History and monuments of a medieval town”, the main local arguments in favour of this are that the father, Rodrigo Manrique, lived on these lands. The argument of the people of Segura is reinforced if we believe that those years were the heyday of the confrontation between the nobility, one of the leaders of which was Rodrigo, and King John II and his valued Álvaro de Luna, which would favour that the minors of the family were far from the dispute: Palencia.