Villarrubia de los Ojos Stadium

Villarrubia de los Ojos is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha. The municipality spans across a total area of 281.86 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 9,762.

History

Control over the territory passed from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem to the Order of Calatrava on the wake of the 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. The demarcation of the area in the concord of 1232 confirmed the Calatravan control of Villarrubia.

Together with Aldea del Rey, Almagro, Bolanos and Daimiel, Villarrubia was one of the five towns of the Campo de Calatrava. By the end of the middle ages, Villarrubia, like the rest of the Campo de Calatrava, featured a quite large mudejar population. In 1502, the Catholic Monarchs granted local moriscos from Villarrubia (and the wider Campo) tax exemptions, as if they were for all legal purposes old christians. Tightly assimilated into the local society, the moriscos from Villarrubia fiercedly refused their decreed expulsion, and the local lord, the Count of Salinas (and President of the Council of Portugal), lobbied in order to curb the impact of the measure.