Calle de Antonio Acuña
The street bears the name of Antonio Osorio de Acuña (Valladolid, c. 1453–1459 – Simancas, 23 March 1526), bishop of Zamora and military leader of the Comunero uprising of 1520–1521. He was executed at Simancas after killing the castle warden in an escape attempt. The name was shortened to its present form in 1880.
The calle de Antonio Acuña runs between the calle de Alcalá and the calle del Doctor Castelo, in the Goya district. The original sign was longer, calle del Obispo Antonio Osorio de Acuña, until in 1880 it was pruned to the form now read on the corner.
The man behind it was a soldier in a cassock. Antonio Osorio de Acuña, illegitimate son of the bishop of Burgos, returned from an embassy in Rome with a papal bull naming him bishop of Zamora in 1507. When the War of the Communities broke out in 1520, he gathered a regiment of armed clergy and entered Toledo, where he was acclaimed archbishop. The Comunero defeat at Villalar did not stop him.
The end read like crime fiction. Imprisoned at Simancas, he tried to escape and killed the warden. He was stripped of the priesthood and executed by garrote in 1526.
Its names
- Calle del Obispo Antonio Osorio de AcuñaAnterior a 1880
Sources (6)
- Madrid: sus viejas calles — Antonio Acuña (Calle de)
- Antonio Osorio de Acuña — Real Academia de la Historia (Historia Hispánica)
- Antonio Osorio de Acuña — Wikipedia EN
- Luis de Vázquez de Acuña y Osorio — Wikipedia ES (padre, obispo de Burgos)
- Causa formada en 1526 a D. Antonio de Acuña, obispo de Zamora, por la muerte que dió a Mendo de Noguerol — Biblioteca Digital de Castilla y León
- Antonio de Acuña antes de las Comunidades, su embajada en Roma — Academia.edu