Padilla takes Tordesillas, but Juana will not commit herself to Padilla’s proposals.

The movement spreads rapidly through Castile unopposed by the nobles, who have not forgiven Charles his quest for the imperial title (which they regard as inferior to that of king of Castile) nor his foreign councilors and courtiers.

Above all, they resent his bestowal of the archbishopric of Toledo on the young Burgundian, William de Croy, and the appointment of his former tutor, Adrian of Utrecht, as regent of Castile.

Even the appointment of the admiral Fadrique Enríquez and the constable of Castile, Iñigo de Velasco, as Adrian's co-regents does little to mollify the offended nobles.

The junta, in a move to please the noble faction, replaces Padilla with Don Pedro Girón, an important nobleman.

However, the comunero movement’s disparate factions—radicals, bourgeosie, and nobles— soon become disunited.

The nobles, whom the junta has alienated by its popular demands, withdraw and support Charles.

Girón defects, and after Charles' troops recover Tordesillas in December, the Junta Santa recalls Padilla amid a great outpouring of popular enthusiasm.