History
According to some authors his name derives from the former berones. Govantes in his Geographical - historical Dictionary of La Rioja, appointment " Briones preserves the name of the former Berones, Celtic village that was possessing this country when the Romans conquered Spain ". But it had more ancient settlers according to remains of the Age of Bronze, found by the hermitage of the Martyrs. Of the Roman epoch scarcely there is Briones's news. Nevertheless they have found archaeological remains near the hermitage of the Concepcion, in the Real Way called.
The history confirms his importance and there are indications of road link. During the Arabic domination, the Chronicle Albendense indicates that Alfonso I of Asturias expelled the Muslims of Briones about the year 740. Nevertheless Briones's reconquest will will to wait until the year 923 in which La Rioja goes on to Christian hands with Ordoño II of León and Sancho Garcés of Navarre. At the beginning of the 10th century Briones it knew the first Christian repopulation with elements vascones, as it parts with the toponymy, being constituted for these dates in border between the County of Castile and the Kingdom of Navarre. It was from Navarre in times of Sancho Major, forming a part of Nájera's Earth, and it was ruled by his jurisdiction (at least between the years 1000 and 1035), until 1076 in which Sancho was murdered that of Peñalén. Immediately after this, Alfonso VI of Castile got hold of La Rioja from Mounts of Goose up to the river Ebro, remaining Briones incorporated into the Wreath of Castile as frontier villa opposite to Navarre, for his strategic riverside position of the Ebro.
With the Castilian occupation of La Rioja, Briones was of the dominion of the Haro, counts of Alava and Biscay and it is probable that, when Diego Lopez de Haro devoted himself to strengthen the line of the Ebro, were raised the strength and walls. The first documented master of Briones is the master of Biscay, Diego Lopez de Haro III (1236-1254) who, about 1240, rebelled against Femando III of Castile and one sheltered in Briones's castle. About 1242 the king surrounded and besieged the strength to make the rebel a prisoner. Since then Briones happened(passed) to be a villa realenga. The successor of Femando III the Saint, Alfonso X, granted Briones's jurisdiction on January 18, 1256 inspired by that of Vitoria and today eliminated. There remains his confirmation realized by Sancho IV of Castile in 1291.
The jurisdiction grants important privileges and exemptions to facilitate the repopulation that the castellanía of the villa was assuring opposite to the Navarrese ones. The monarch demands loyalty from his person and successors in order that the Jurisdiction is kept. In 1293, assembled the Spanish Parliament in Valladolid for Sancho IV, granted several royal privileges to themselves, between them that of Briones, who at the time was understanding the villages of Ollauri, Gimileo and Rodezno. During the wars supported by Enrique de Trastamara and Pedro I Cruel, Briones was of the dominion of the brother of the Trastamara, Sancho, to whom the rebel don Enrique had granted several villas and Riojan places. During Nájera's battle freed in 1367, don Sancho was made a prisoner by Pedro I and cleared of " Briones with all his places, villages and terms ". In 1369, Pedro I was murdered by his brother and this one occupied the Castilian wreath. The new king, Enrique II, it confirmed the same year the jurisdiction and established itself in this villa to negotiate with the of Navarre king Carlos II, the Villain, on his territorial differences. Nevertheless, the Castilian - of Navarre war Carlos II exploded in 1378 because of the alliance between Ricardo 11 of England v. The Castilian advances for of Navarre lands forced Carlos II to negotiate the peace with Enrique II and for it he sent two attorneys to the royal camp Spanish located in Briones.
Briones's peace called was signed on March 31, 1379. The Navarrese one was binding to be a friend of Castile and enemy of England and when did not marry any person of his royal family other one of the English house. This agreement was ratified month and a half later in Sto. Domingo de la Calzada. Don Sancho, brother of the monarch, returned to show the master's title of Briones and of Haro that later there inherited his daughter dona Leonor, nicknamed the "Ricahembra". When the husband of dona Leonor, Fernando of Antequera, was elected a king of Aragon in 1412, Briones, in regime of villa of dominion, it took the monarches of Aragon as gentlemen, and later to that of Navarre, when encircled his wreath Juan I, son of dona Leonor and Fernando of Antequera, inheritor of the dominion. This one sold the villa to the marshall Sancho de Londoño on December 29, 1445 for 20.000 florins of gold. Later, the Navarrese one tried to recover his dominion, by means of new purchase, and as this one was refusing to some treatment, Juan I occupied Briones's villa until, for the agreement of Barcelona of 1445, he resigned his rights and it her penetrated to his nephew Enrique IV of Castile. The later conflicts of this monarch with Juan I of Navarre decided aceder the dominion to the Master don Pedro Girón on October 20, 1459 in remuneration to his military services given opposite to the of Navarre king. The new master of Briones designated as warden of the villa don Juan Tenorio. To Pedro Girón's death, the dominion happened for a route of primogeniture to his first-born one, Alfonso Téllez Girón, in 1466.
In 1472 there appears as master of the villa his brother Juan Téllez Girón, who had to reach an agreement in 1480 with the inheritor of Londoño, Diego de Londoño, who was coming claiming his rights to the dominion. The question was not solved until 1498, in which the inheritors of Diego de Londoño resigned any right on Briones for the sum of 150.000 old Spanish gold coins that there satisfied Juan Téllez Girón, count of Ureña. Since then the dominion continued in hands of this family that were Dukes of Osuna from 1562, Marquesses of Peñafiel and Counts of Ureña. The last master of Briones was Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort, the XIth Duke of Osuna, Peñafiel's X Marqués and the XVth Count of Ureña, who enjoyed the dominion until the year 1837, in which the Court of Justice confirmed the judgment given in 1818 on Briones's incorporation to the Wreath. During the war of the Independence, Briones was not foreign to the disasters provoked by the invaders; the author Garran recounts that " When the Frenchmen entered Briones on November 30, 1807, there were small to satisfy his rapacity the richest jewelry that it had donated to the church and to the hermitage of the Saint Christ de los Remedios the devout and most generous D. Andrés of bar and Stony ". In 1836, during the first war Carlist, Briones's Brigade was sent by the general Luis Fernandez of Cordova to cover the margen of the Ebro to block the way of the Carlists.
In the last war Carlist, Briones and Ashtray fell down in Eustaquio's hands of Weep For You November, 1873 and there were made prisoners more than fifty brioneros that were moved to Laguardia.
