Castella la-Manxa

8. Sigüenza The city fell under Roman , Visigothic , Moorish and Castilian rule. Around 1123, it was taken by Bernard of Agen , its first bishop. Sigüenza played a large part in the civil wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . The fortress palace of the bishops, an earlier Moorish qasbah , was captured in 1297 by the partisans of the Infantes de la Cerda , and in 1355 it was the prison of Blanche of Bourbon , consort of Pedro the Cruel . In 1465 Diego López of Madrid, having usurped the miter , fortified himself there.