government, Alfonso XI established direct royal rule of Burgos through the Regimiento of sixteen appointed men.
In 1574, Pope Gregory XIII made its bishop an archbishop, at the request of king Philip II.
Burgos has been the scene of many wars: with the Moors, the struggles between León and Navarre, and between Castile and Aragon. In the Peninsular War against Napoleonic France, Burgos was the scene of a battle, and again in the 19th-century Carlist civil wars of the Spanish succession. During the Spanish Civil War, Burgos was the base of Gen. Franco's rebel Nationalist government
