The ''Chronicon Compostellanum'' (, ) is a narrative

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of the

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from the arrival of the

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(which it dates to 362) until the death of Queen Urraca of León on 8 March 1126. It was probably written shortly after this date, and probably in Galicia. It covers the history of the Visigothic kingdom and their successors, the

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, rapidly, incorporating the ''Laterculum regum ovetensium'' ("List of the kings of Oviedo"), a regnal list of the Asturian monarchy from

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to Alfonso II written sometime after 791 and also incorporated in the ''

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'' and the '' Annales Portugalenses veteres''. For the eleventh-century

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it is the earliest surviving source after the ''

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'' (1109–18). The cause of Urraca's death—in labour with the child of her lover,

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—is recorded in the ''Chronicon''. Its first editor and publisher,

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, in his twenty-eighth preliminary note to the appendix of Latin documents in the twenty-third volume of his '' España Sagrada'', described the text thus:

Notes

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Editions

, ed. "Chronicon ex Historiæ Compostellanæ Codice. Nunc primum editum." ''España Sagrada'', XX (1765), 608–13, an
XXIII
(1767), 325–28. Madrid. *Emma Falque Rey, ed. "Chronicon Compostellanum," ''Habis'', 14(1983):73–83.

References

*Therese Martin

''e-Spania'', 5 June 2008 (online 1 July 2008). Accessed 23 May 2009. *Gonzalo Martínez Díez. 2005. ''El condado de Castilla, 711–1038: La historia frente a la leyenda''. Marcial Pons Historia, p. 756. *Bernard F. Reilly. 1988

Princeton: Princeton University Press. Iberian chronicles 12th-century books in Latin