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of the

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, modern Santiago de Compostela, during the period beginning in 561 and ending in 982. It is usually found appended to the '' Historia Compostellana'' in medieval manuscripts, though it is also found in twelfth-century manuscripts that are otherwise in disagreement with the ''Historia''. It may have been designed to complete the account of the diocese found in the ''Historia'', but there is a school of thought which places its composition immediately after the last events it records, around 982, by the vengeful and recently deposed bishop Pelayo Rodríguez, as both

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and M. R. García Álvarez believed. The ''Chronicon'' begins with

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, bishop during the

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in 561 and continues to the episcopate of Pedro Martínez de Monsoncio. It mentions the discovery of the purported body of

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, during the episcopate of Theodomirus, during the reign of Alfonso II the Chaste, but it does not describe how the body was found. According to the ''Chronicon'', Theodomirus became the first bishop of the new see of Santiago de Compostela in the days of

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(called ''rex Franciae'',

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Editions

*In Juan de Ferreras, ed. ''Historia de España'', XVI (Madrid: 1727) *In

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, ed. ''España Sagrada'', XX (Madrid: 1765), 598–608. *In M. R. García Álvarez, ed. "El Cronicón Iriense" (Madrid: 1963).

References

*Barton Sholod. 1966. ''Charlemagne in Spain: The Cultural Legacy of Roncesvalles'' (Geneva: Librairie Droz), p. 129. *José-Luis Martín. 1965. "Pelayo Rodríguez, obispo de Santiago (977–985)", ''Anuario de los estudios medievales'', 2, 474. Iberian chronicles 10th-century Latin books