Benedicto XIII

Pedro Martinez de Luna, Benedict XIII, Pope Luna. Three different ways of naming the same character who has gone down in history as obstinacy personified by the firmness of his convictions against Rome. Few know the true dimension of who really engineered the territorial unification of Spain that would come to light with the Catholic Monarchs. An intellectual, political, religious and even warrior figure (because war, as in any other 15th century leader, would be fundamental in his pontificate) in whose thought and in whose work we observe the wake of the project that the Order of the Temple designed for the Western Christianity. Custodian of the Holy Grail, owner of an entire naval army, forerunner of the Borgias and supporter of the Trastámara, Benedict XIII starred in the exciting story of the resistance of the Avignon papacy against Rome during the Schism and made the town of Peñíscola in Castellón the center of attention of Spain and the world. His personality, his deep ideals and his strategic skills made him a fearsome threat to his adversaries (whom he watched die one by one until Martin V) and a household and popular name among the people. His legacy, today faded, expands by a thousand paths and draws him, together with the chronicles, as perhaps the most decisive character of the Late Middle Ages in the entire West.