Calle del Infante
After the country estate that tradition says belonged here to the infante Fernando de la Cerda, eldest son of Alfonso X the Wise, who died in 1275. The street already appears under this name on the Teixeira and Espinosa maps.
When Fernando de la Cerda died in 1275, his father Alfonso X still reigned and he never wore the crown. His early death opened one of Castile’s gravest succession wounds: the Partidas reserved the throne for the dead man’s sons, but the younger brother, Sancho, would not wait behind his nephews and claimed the inheritance for himself.
On this estate, tradition says, Sancho’s supporters gathered to plot how to keep the dead infante’s sons off the throne. From that villa, the scene of the conspiracy, the street later traced over the same ground took its name. The details of those meetings belong more to handed-down memory than to the records that support it.
Its names
- Calle del Infanteh. 16th–17th century
- Calle del Capitán Sediles1936–1939
- Calle del Infante1939
Sources (6)
- Calle del Infante — Wikipedia
- Madrid: sus viejas calles: Infante (Calle del)
- Por las calles de Madrid — Calle del Infante
- Peñasco y Cambronero, Las calles de Madrid (1889) — BNE
- Wikidata — Calle del Infante (Q28537171)
- Capmany, Origen histórico y etimológico de las calles de Madrid (1863) — Internet Archive