Calle Carvajales

In August 1312, Pedro and Juan de Carvajal, knights of the Order of Calatrava, were condemned by Ferdinand IV to be thrown from the rock of Martos, in Jaén, accused of a crime they were never allowed to disprove. Before they fell, they summoned the king to appear before God’s judgment within thirty days. Ferdinand IV died on 7 September, once the term had passed, with no one witnessing his last breath. From that death without witnesses came the nickname by which he went down in history, the Summoned. Calle Carvajales is short, barely over two hundred metres, and opens onto the Las Acacias neighbourhood, where much of the street map honours Extremadura. Here the name steps away from that geography to fix the plural by which the two brothers were known and one of the most talked-about deaths of the Castilian Middle Ages.