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In the history of civilizations, the games have been, originally, something very different from a simple distraction profane, and chess, in particular, one of those where traces of sacred origin have been harder.
However, the term "checkerboard" of chess, or "rock-breaking" for tacos, is used in several disciplines. Referred to pavements, is already ruined Cástulo (Linares) and is achieved with river pebbles, small and homogeneous, white and gray. It is also used as a resource on mural painting and in heraldry, where a checkerboard or divided headquarters is symbolic of battle, strategy, nobility, generosity, authority and record the value.
In architecture, a chessboard is a decorative geometric motif. We refer to it when we in archivolts, cornices or some other element of the temples those typical ornaments that remind us of the chessboard.
The arrangement of rock-breaking, in straight bands alternately lowered and highlighted, might respond, in its symbolic aspect, the juxtaposition of white and black, representing light and darkness, the day and night, that is, all pairs of opposite or complementary.
know that originally, the board opposing colors were white and red, but then it finally ended up being displaced by the color black. In any case
and within its sacred meaning, chess is a sample testimonial of the dual standby, which is only activated, in-game event with the participation of a third element: the rationale acting under a law, strategy, binding site between the profane and the sacred instinct intuition.
In the Middle Ages, and since its introduction in the West by the Arabs, chess was one of the most fashionable courtly entertainment, and although the game itself had been evolving since then, still possessed a clear reference war. Somehow
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connect the board and its parts as a reflection of the social environment of people and their daily struggle for life.
In the field of political ideology, this game betrayed the message of the concept of kingship which coincided with his political project: So the king, military commander embody the "Madam of the army"; horses seríann "the knights made by King cabdiellos mandated to order the army Azes" the rocks, "chariots" and bishops, "Kings elephants that used to weigh in battles." While for the ordinary man medieval chess enclosed all a microcosm of society, which could act as a god, having the fate of humans.
During these centuries, the vestiges of a sacred character that chess had remained alive. Its secrecy and attractive, even addictive, boosted his popularity and was no longer exclusive to a few scholars who exercised their minds to extrapolate the use of strategies.
sometimes seems that chess was used as a fair gentleman. In fact, there is a history before the Roman period referring to Charlemagne almost lost the kingdom and its head, due to a chess tournament, in which was defeated:
Charlemagne had a champion in his service named Garin. Such was the value that this showed that he earned the admiration of the knights and the ladies love. Including the empress herself.
On hearing this, Charlemagne called him and suggested: "Let's play a game of chess, but with these rules: If you win, I'll deliver all my kingdoms and possessions as well as my own wife . If I win, you pay with your life defeat. "
Garin was forced to accept, but what Charlemagne did not know was that his opponent was a great chess player. After a hard struggle Garin attacks and counterattacks succeeded in checkmate. They say that Charlemagne collapsed in tears at being defeated, it is not known if the heartbreak of losing all or the anger at being unable to beat his opponent.
Garin proved to be more prudent and wise that the king himself. Forgave the fair and asked to change the return of the castle that they had taken previously. And there he moved away from the imperial conspiracy.
any event, enhanced by its past "pagan" and heavy bets were associated with the games, this game ended up being condemned by the Church at the Council of Paris in 1212. St. Louis King also forbids an ordinance in 1254, perceiving this as a diabolical invention. Actually, chess, could lock up the long, cultural growth potential of the common people, which always threatens the control over the masses.
However, this persecution by the church, failed to stop the play to continue to spread through Europe and the nobles and monks continued practicing Christians. Example gives us Alfonso X, because his reign is the oldest book on chess that have reached us:
And as for his own church congregation, there are illustrated codices showing monks, as in this case, participating Templars in a game of chess.
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............. http://www.romanicocatalan.com/02f-Otros/Francia/Sant% 20Hilari/Santhilari.htm
The presence of this board engraved on the basement of the cloister in the Abbey of Sant Hilari (Roussillon), is quite amazing, because the rules of St. Benedict did not provide any time of day the monks for a distraction from this genre.
**** **** THE ROC
We talked earlier about the presence of the checkered in heraldry, an element that was adopted by a noble family, would suggest a strong or innate commitment to combat.
The style of this subject appears in a large number of arms of noble status, but all is one that we called our attention. It's shield the Rocabertí, a lineage emerged from the Carolingian period nebulae (Dr. Santiago Sobrequés and Vidal-Rv.Gerona, No 62 ) and apparently had a very representing important and prominent in the field military, legal and religious, from the tenth century in the heart of the medieval period until well into the seventeenth century.
The rock-breaking shield that keeps the original color of the Arab parts, red and white , holds within it, a sign that for some centuries before came perpetuated, sometimes branded as lapidary and some other form part of an identification badge with clear intent.
This mark corresponds to one of the pieces of chess, the rook or popularly known as the tower.
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At first, the caste of Rocabertí lived in the county of Roussillon, where stands the monastery of Sant Martí Canigó XIIth century, and from which the former capitals, showing a small shield with the spelling of the Roc, a sign of recognition adopted by that dynasty and establishing their presence and participation in the temple in question. The term Persian
Rukh (Roc) called for the tower of chess, is what determined that names with the nickname "roc" acquired the piece as an emblem.
Another such influential families were Rocafort, who also cooperated with strong donations for the perpetual remembrance, and the Romanesque cloister of the monastery of Sant Benet Bages (Barcelona) there is proof of that.
.... Shield of Rocabertí (La Seu Vella de Lleida. XIII century-XIV)
Rocabertí Crest of the monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran (Girona) s. XIV-XV
We see that since its inception Rocabertí family has maintained the roc as the primary emblem of his name.
This observation covered by the very limited presence of these brands in the Romanesque ashlar facing the many different ones that are repeated everywhere, leads us to believe that the roc is not a brand of planter understood as such but it is a sign of identity. The "signature" identifying the presence of de facto power of a saga.
Based on these reasons, it would be plausible to understand the emergence in the church of Santa Maria de Biota of the "heraldic in infancy, in its western portal, the main entrance of the church toward the altar, is in four blocks archivolts marked with this mark.
And not in vain, there is evidence that even into the seventeenth century, members of that branch of the family with the surname Rocabertí, still boasting among others, the title of viscount of Biota. (Item sacramental. File parish of St. Giles, Abbot of Zaragoza. Volume III f 128V.).
