Resumen de Felipe II y la construcción de la iglesia del Real Monasterio de Santiago de Uclés (Cuenca)
The Uclés Monastery has been the headquarters of the religious wing of the powerful Military Order of Santiago since the Middle Ages. However, the building that we see today is part of a total reform of the complex that began in 1529 under the initiative of Carlos V, as master of the military order. Various historical events and financing problems caused the completion of the entire complex to take more than 200 years, involving in those years a large number of royal architects. Among the parts of this monastic complex, its church stands out, attributed since the 18th century as labor of Juan de Herrera. In this paper, we will point out the special interest shown by King Felipe II in the construction of the temple, and we will clarify the construction phases of the building during the 16th century. Using a diachronic point of view, we will study the contribution of various royal architects to the building of the church from the sixties, who had to give solutions stylistically in line with their time to a plan inherited from Enrique Egas from around 1529. We will observe the changes introduced by the architects sent by the king to Uclés from 1566, such as Gaspar de Vega (and his references to Sebastiano Serlio) or later Francisco de Mora and the use of the architectural vocabulary of Juan de Herrera at San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
