Lezuza en el contexto de las guerras carlistas. La facción del cura de Alcabón fue masacrada en 1874

Abstract

On the 27th of December in 1874 a confrontation happened in Pradorrendondo, a small village of the town of Lezuza, between the liberal troops, led by the Lieutenant Colonel Portillo, and the Priest Party of Alcabón, in which 120 Carlists were slaughtered. This incident will cause what has been called “The Legend of the Ball”. The leader of the party, don Lucio Dueñas, priest of Alcabón, was one of the most famous guerrilla priests of the Third Carlist War, and his biography has been reconstructed through the historical press. The research article is complemented with other events occurred in Lezuza and its region during the First Carlist War