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ca 1205-09. Navarre (Iberia). A collection of historical texts in Latin and Navarro-Aragonese dealing with the kingdom of Navarre, preserved in two 14th-century copies of the Fuero General de Navarra (Pamplona, Archivo General de Navarra, cód. E-3), and also in the Liber regum (Zaragoza, BU, ms. 225). Ubieto groups the texts into the following six categories: Linaje de los Reyes de España, Linaje de Rodrigo Díaz el Cid Campeador, Historia Antigua, Anales Viejos, Anales Modernos and Anales Latinos. The last of these insist on the necessity of the monarch swearing to uphold the Fueros (fe…

[de Aragón] 1421-61. Navarre (Iberia). Prince of Viana, legitimate heir to the throne of Navarre, son of Blanca I and Juan II of Aragon. Author of the most important Navarrese historical work of the Middle Ages, the Crónica de los reyes de Navarra. The work is accompanied by illustrations (see fig. 1).The Crónica, written in Navarro-Aragonese, was compiled around 1454 after the first imprisonment of its author. It contains a history of the kingdom from antiquity to the reign of the author's great-grandfather, Carlos II (1349-87). Greatest detail is given for the period after t…

(Book of kings) 1194-1211. Navarre (Iberia). Written in Navarro-aragonese Romance, it contains a brief universal history combined with a genealogy of peninsular kings. The Liber Regum extols the early medieval past of the kingdom of Pamplona-Navarre, linking to the other peninsular kingdoms and to the Christian defence of the Peninsula.The first version exists in folios 26-35 of a codex known as the Cronicón Villarense (after its former proprietor, Miguel Martínez del Villar), and currently in Zaragoza (BU, ms. 225). The hand is of the 13th-century French style then common in t…

[Ramírez Dávalos de la Piscina] early 16th century. Navarre (Iberia). Doctor and author of the Crónica de los Muy Excelentes Reyes de Navarra in Castilian. Also known as the Crónica de Val de Ilzarbe, this chronicle closes the cycle of late medieval Navarrese chronicles, the spirit of which was left untouched until Padre Moret's Anales in the 17th century. It takes as its model the Crónica de los Reyes de Navarra by Carlos de Viana, and brings it up to 1534. Its aim is to ingratiate the last supporters of an independent Navarre with Carlos V. Its main historical value lies in its genealo…

[Crónica de 1305; Crónica de los estados peninsulares] 1305, expanded 1328/9. Navarre (Iberia). This anonymous work in Aragonese covers the most important events of the Astur-Leonese kingdom to the 11th century, Aragon to the reign of Ramiro II (1134-7), and Navarre up to the advent of the Evreux dynasty (1328). The first part is a succinct account of the kingdom of Aragon based on lost documents from San Juan de la Peña and San Victorián de Ribagorza also used by the Liber regum. The second part deals with Astur-Leonese history to the first split of Castile and León, and the third with Nav…

[Crònica dels reis d'Aragó i comtes de Barcelona; Crónica real de Pere IV] ca 1369-72. Aragon (Iberia). Versions in Latin, Catalan and Aragonese, and sections in Castilian. The Crónica recounts the origins of Aragon and Catalonia up to the reign of Pere IV (1336-87) and is the principal medieval narrative source for the history of the crown of Aragon. This anonymous chronicle was long attributed to a monk of the monastery of San Juan de la Peña called Fray Pedro Marfilo. It appears to have been written as prologue to the Crònica de Pere el Ceremoniós, one of the four great Catalan chronic…

d. 1437. Navarre (Iberia). Treasurer of Carlos III of Navarre and member of a powerful family. Author of the Crónica de los Reyes de Navarra, added as prologue to his first book of accounts in 1404. The Crónica marks an important threshold in the historiography of the kingdom (previously there were only annals and genealogies) and shows a particular critical and moral force of argument. Passages of contemporary interest are included, some of which cite previously ignored rebels. The Crónica is thus the first of the great medieval Navarrese chronicles. A further novelty lie…