Villabona
Gipuzkoa · GuipúzcoaPaís Vasco / Euskadi · País Vasco
Transparent Romance compound Villa Bona ('good town'), Castilian compositional pattern for royal foundations with fiscal and commercial privileges. The denomination, attested from 1366, fixes the royal character of the place.
Villa bona is one of the three onomastic patterns of Castilian free villages (villa nova, villa bona, mons regalis). The town of Villabona was founded in 1366 by Henry II as a commercial post of the Oria valley.
Evolution of the name
- villa bona medieval Latin 12th–14th centuries
- Villabona Castilian from 1366
Glossary
- Attested
- A form or word documented in writing in historical sources; opposed to "reconstructed" (forms proposed by comparative inference but not actually documented).
- Castilian free village
- Medieval urban foundation endowed by royal charter with fiscal privileges, commercial freedom and exemption from feudal servitudes. Three onomastic patterns: villa nova (Vilanova), villa bona (Villabona, Vilabôa) and mons regalis (Monreal, Villarreal). Attested from the 12th century in Castile, Aragón, Navarre and Catalonia.
- Onomastics
- The linguistic discipline that studies proper names — of persons, places and institutions. "Onomastic readings" are competing etymological hypotheses about a name.
If you have a correction or an observation about this information,
please write to us through the form at the foot of the site.
We will grow more precise thanks to your contribution.
Camino Vasco del Interior