Las fortificaciones del condado de Niebla en la Baja Edad Media

The county of Niebla makes up an extensive territory, equivalent to sixteen municipal districts in the current province of Huelva, which was given in 1368 by Enrique II of Trastámara to Juan Alonso de Guzmán, fourth lord of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, as a reward for his support in the upheaval context of the Castilian civil war that ended the reign and life of Pedro I. Some of the fortresses that were built here in the medieval centuries have disappeared; others preserve a minimum part of their original materiality. The bibliographical footprint of all of them is very scarce. Only Niebla Castle, and very recently, has been the subject of historical and archaeological research. Individually, they are very elusive fortresses, given the scarcity of documentary references available. As a block, it was a non-existent set, since it had never been studied as such to date.