The ''Crónicas anónimas de Sahagún'' are two short

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s composed by the monks of

Sahagún Sahagún () is a town and municipality of Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León and the province of León. It is the main centre of population in the Leonese part of the Tierra de Campos natural region. Sahagún contains ...

two centuries apart. They survive only in sixteenth-century

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translations. The first is a catalogue of the excesses of the

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and

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of Sahagún between the years 1109 and 1117. Perhaps it was designed to be presented at the Council of Burgos in the latter year. If an early-twelfth-century provenance is correct then it must have originally been written in

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. It is a useful source of detail for the early reign of

Urraca of León and Castile Urraca ( León, 24 June 1081 – Saldaña, 8 March 1126), called the Reckless ''(La Temeraria)'', was Queen of León, Castile and Galicia from 1109 until her death. She claimed the imperial title as suo jure ''Empress of All Spain'' and '' ...

, since the monastery at Sahagún was the most important in her realms. The second chronicle, written in the fourteenth century, may have been either originally Latin or originally Spanish. It is generally of little use to the historian.

Editions

* Antonio Ubieto Arteta, ed. 1987. ''Crónicas Anónimas de Sahagún''. Textos Medievales, 75. Zaragoza: Anubar Ediciones. * Julio Puyol y Alonso, ed. 1920. "Las crónicas anónimas de Sahagún." ''Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia'', 76''
7–26
and 77''

References

*Reilly, Bernard F. 1982

Princeton: Princeton University Press. *Reilly, Bernard F. 1988

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