La Tierra de Lara era una villa compuesta por trece aldeas
o barrios que hacia 1500 se encontraba en proceso de afirmación
jurisdiccional frente a la ciudad de Burgos, que ejercía el señorío,
y de completar el control de su propio término concejil, que era
uno sólo para todas las aldeas. En este proceso histórico chocó con
Oriyuelos y San Martín de Cuatrales, antiguas aldeas pertenecientes
al monasterio de San Pedro de Arlanza, que, tras despoblarse en
el siglo XV, acabaron siendo cedidas por un censo perpetuo a Pedro
Fernández de Villegas, arcediano de Burgos. Sus descendientes sostuvieron
una serie de pleitos con Lara, que luchaba porque fueran
parte de su término concejil.
Tierra de Lara was a town made up of thirteen small
villages or districts that, around the year 1500, was in the process
of establishing its jurisdiction as independent from Burgos, which
was a lordship, and gaining control of its own council area, which
was to be one for all of its districts. During this historical process,
the town came across Oriyuelos and San Martín de Cuatrales, old
villages that belonged to the San Pedro de Arlanza Monastery and
which, after depopulation in the fifteenth century, ended up being
granted through a censo perpetuo (lifelong annuity contract) to Pedro
Fernández de Villegas, Archdeacon of Burgos. His descendants were involved in litigation with Lara, fighting for Oriyuelos and
San Martín de Cuatrales to be part of its council area.
