The ''Chronicon complutense sive alcobacense'' ("Complutensian Chronicle, that is,
rom a manuscriptof
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated municipality. ...
ncient Complutum) is a short
medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a Literary language, literary standard language, standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It was used f ...
history, in the form of
annals
Annals ( la, annāles, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
Scope
The nature of the distinction between ann ...
, of events in
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
and
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal:
:* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian ...
up to the death of
Ferdinand I "the Great", whom the anonymous chronicler lauds as an "exceedingly strong emperor" (''imperator fortissimus''), in 1065. It is the earliest "''
chronicon''" dealing with Galaico-Portuguese events. The first edition (''editio princeps'') was published by
Enrique Flórez
Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro (July 21, 1702August 20, 1773) was a Spanish historian.
Biography
Flórez was born in Villadiego
Villadiego is a Spanish town and municipality in the comarca of Odra-Pisuerga, in west of the p ...
in 1767. A more recent edition, incorporating the recension known as the ''Chronicon conimbrigense'', was published under the title ''Annales Portugalenses veteres'' (APV, "old Portuguese annals") by Pierre David.
Editions
*Enrique Flórez, ed. ''España Sagrada'', XXIII, 2nd ed. (Madrid: 1799)
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*Pierre David, ed. "Annales Portugalenses Veteres", ''Revista Portuguesa de Historia'' 3 (1945): 81–128.
References
*Porter Conerly (1993). "Cronicones". In Germán Bleiberg. ''Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula''. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 469–70.
*J. Eduardo López Pereira (1978). "El Elemento godo en los «Annales Portugalenses Veteres»: un problema de crítica textual y de fuentes", ''Revista Portuguesa de Historia'' 16: 223–26.
Iberian chronicles
13th-century Latin books