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13-600: The earliest reference to the battle is found in the Chronicon of Sampiro , a Leonese cleric writing probably in the late 980s. According to Sampiro, the "Agarenes" (descendants of Hagar , i.e. the Muslims) arrived at Mois (Muez), threatening the kingdom of Navarre, whose king, Sancho Garcés I requested the aid of Ordoño II of León . The Leonese king encountered the Muslims—whom we know from other sources to have been under

26-422: A young man Sampiro entered a monastery, either Sahagún or San Miguel de Camarzana . Later he fled to Zamora in light of raids from Muslim territory , and eventually found himself in the royal court at León . He served as a notary to Vermudo II (984–999) and held the highest office at court, that of majordomo , under Alfonso V (999–1028). He was appointed bishop of Astorga round 1034. Sampiro's chronicle

39-602: Is probably an error for Egica , who made a major revision of the Lex Visigothorum and who was held by Leonese writers of the time to have been related to Wamba. The later historian Pelayo of Oviedo , who continued Sampiro's chronicle down to his own age, replaced this laudatory section with an attack on the king, bequeathing to historiography the nickname by which Vermudo II is always known: "the Gouty" ( el Gotoso ). Chronicle of Alfonso III From Misplaced Pages,

52-564: Is written in a late form of Latin and outlines a history of the period from the Visigothic King Wamba through that of King Ordoño I . The Chronicle exists in two somewhat different recensions: the earlier Cronica Rotensis , and the later Cronica ad Sebastianum , which includes additional details furthering the ideological goals of the chronicle. References [ edit ] ^ Wreglesworth, John (1995). The Chronicle of Alfonso III and Its Significance for

65-597: The Castilian count Gonzalo Fernández in 912, had to be abandoned. It was in Muslim hands as late as 1007–10. The exact location of Valdejunquera is unknown. The seventeenth-century Navarrese historian José de Moret located it north of Irujo and south of the sierra of Andía . He claimed that even in his day the Basques called the region "Iuncadia" in their language. The late eleventh-century Historia Silense placed

78-538: The Duero " and that of Tuy had as its bishop a certain Nausto . In studying the texts of Sampiro and Pelayo, historian Justo Pérez de Urbel concluded that Dulcidio was Bishop of Zamora and Ermogio of Oporto , but with roots in the region of Tuy. Sampiro Sampiro ( c . 956 – 1041) was a Leonese cleric, politician, and intellectual, one of the earliest chroniclers of post-conquest Spain known by name. He

91-1277: The Historiography of the Asturian Kingdom 718 - 910 AD (PhD). The University of Leeds . Retrieved September 7, 2019 . External links [ edit ] [REDACTED] Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Cronica ad Sebastianum [REDACTED] Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Cronica Rotensis Latin text and Spanish translation of both versions Authority control databases [REDACTED] International VIAF FAST National United States France BnF data Spain Israel Other IdRef Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chronicle_of_Alfonso_III&oldid=1254655936 " Categories : Medieval texts in Latin Asturias Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

104-420: The battle in the territory of Sancho Garcés, somewhere between Estella and Pamplona . The assignment of the bishops Dulcidio and Ermogio to known dioceses has also been problematic. While Sampiro's continuator, Pelayo of Oviedo , writing in the twelfth century, believed them to be bishops of Salamanca and Tuy , respectively, neither is possible. In 920 the see of Salamanca lay in the depopulated " Desert of

117-464: The command of their emir, ‘Abdarrahmān III —in the Valdejunquera and was routed. Two of his bishops, Dulcidio and Ermogio , were taken captive to Córdoba . In exchange for his uncle's freedom, Ermogio's nephew Pelagius , later a martyr, went into captivity instead, while Ordoño ransomed Dulcidio. As a further result of the battle, the fortified site of Clunia , which had been repopulated by

130-453: The 💕 Medieval text The Chronicle of Alfonso III ( Latin : Chronica Adefonsi tertii regis ) is a chronicle composed in the early tenth century on the order of King Alfonso III of León with the goal of showing the continuity between Visigothic Spain and the later Christian medieval Spain. Intended as a continuation of Isidore of Seville 's history of the Goths , it

143-542: Was also the Bishop of Astorga from 1034 or 1035 until his death. According to some sources he was born at Iglesia del Campo in the Bierzo , near Cacabelos , at times confused with Sorribas because at the time it lay within the latter. According to other sources he was born at Zamora . Further, it is uncertain whether all contemporary references to persons named Sampiro refer to the same individual or multiple ones. As

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156-528: Was composed as a continuation of the Chronicle of Alfonso III and as such relates events between the years 866 and 982, when it abruptly stops, though it was evidently written in the early eleventh century. It forms part of the Corpus Pelagianum , a series of histories each continuing the last stretching back to Isidore of Seville 's Historia Gothorum . A redaction of the chronicle of Sampiro

169-497: Was incorporated into the Historia Silense . Sampiro praises his master, King Vermudo, as "quite prudent [because] he confirmed the laws dictated by Wamba , ordered the opening and studying of the collection of canons , loved mercy and justice, and tried to reprove evil and choose the good." The statement about the laws of Wamba ( leges a Vambano principe conditas firmavit ), otherwise unknown for his legislative action,

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