Huete

Huete, west of Cuenca, was a Castilian town whose relationship with royal power became especially visible in the fifteenth century. On 26 July 1428 John II granted it the title of city, following the intervention of his falconer Pedro Carrillo de Huete. The privilege gave formal expression to the town's standing within the monarchy. In 1476 the Catholic Monarchs' troops took Huete and restored direct royal authority; the following year they honoured it as Noble and Loyal.

Huete also participated in the early spread of printing. Álvaro de Castro printed Alonso Díaz de Montalvo's compilation of Castilian royal ordinances there in 1484, bringing a major work of law into print outside the kingdom's largest cities. Royal allegiance did not prevent later political division. Juan de Sandoval led the local Comunero movement, whose supporters negotiated for pardon after the defeat at Villalar. The town's late medieval prominence thus encompassed royal privilege, legal scholarship and resistance to royal government.