Editing Doñana National Park (section)

===Middle Ages===
;Alfonso X the Wise
In 1262, after conquering the vassal kingdom of [[Niebla, Spain|Niebla]], King [[Alfonso X of Castile|Alfonso X]] established a ''Real Cazadero'' (royal hunting preserve) in the Las Rocinas forest,<ref name="NovoCrawford1997">{{cite book|author1=Francisco García Novo|author2=Robert M. M. Crawford|author3=Mari Cruz Díaz Barradas|title=The Ecology and Conservation of European Dunes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtIFWx7ZskEC&pg=PA109|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Universidad de Sevilla|isbn=978-84-7405-992-2|page=109}}</ref> between the [[Rio Tinto (river)|Rio Tinto]] and the Guadalquivir, partly due to the abundance of deer there, as well as the small sanctuary of [[Santa Olalla]], since disappeared, on the ''Arroyo de la Rocina''.

In 1297, his son Sancho IV granted [[Alonso Pérez de Guzmán|Guzmán el Bueno]] the Lordship of Sanlúcar, consisting of the territory located behind Arenas Gordas on the left bank of the Guadalquivir estuary, and which remained in the hands of the House of Medina-Sidonia for over six centuries. The noble house was established in 1369, when [[Henry II of Castile]] granted the fourth Lord of Sanlúcar the County of Niebla.<ref name="Pierson1989">{{cite book|author=Peter Pierson|title=Commander of the Armada: The Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BINUUaNkJacC&pg=PA9|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-04408-9|page=9}}</ref> In 1493 the [[Catholic Monarchs]] donated part of the land of the present village of El Rocío to the royal secretary, whose son later sold it to the town of [[Almonte, Spain|Almonte]]. Previously, new breeding stock had been introduced among the local populations of wild boar and deer, while wolf hunting was encouraged for the benefit of cattle and horse ranching.

{{blockquote|text=In the region of Niebla, specifically at Las Rocinas, the land is flat, covered by thickets, and wild boars are always to be found there... ...one may not traverse this ground in the winter, which is generally very wet, except during a drought, nor in summer because it is then so dry and miserably uncomfortable. ~Alfonso XI in his ''Libro de la Montería'' (The Book of Hunting), written between 1342 and 1348}}