• armies -their shield and protection- leave?." Historia Compostellana, Book I, Chapter 90 The Historia Compostelana (fully titled in Latin: De rebus gestis D...
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    lawful monarch. Two early sources—the Chronicle of Sahagún and the Historia Compostelana—attribute the proposal about Urraca's marriage to Alfonso I, King...
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    during the first quarter of the twelfth century. According to the Historia compostelana, he was "spirited ... warlike ... of great power ... a man who feared...
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    Ecclesia S. Iacobi in Regem unxisti." (HISTORIA COMPOSTELLANA, I.108) Cf. Falque, Emma (1994). Historia compostelana. Madrid, España: Akal Ediciones. pp...
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    red marble and surrounded by six votive lamps. The 12th century Historia Compostelana commissioned by Diego Gelmírez provides a summary of the legend...
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    quarrels, ecclesiastical and secular, which were recounted in the Historia Compostelana, which covered his episcopacy from 1100 to 1139 and serves as a...
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    Portugal. Date approximate. The historical chronical of Galicia Historia Compostelana is written. Summer. Alfonso I of Portugal defeats his cousin Alfonso...
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    to receive the sacraments before he died on 29 July 1119. The "Historia Compostelana" states that, before Pope Gelasius died, the archbishop of Vienne...
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    some of the saint's relics to Saint-Denis. The twelfth-century Historia Compostelana contains an account of the relics of Cucuphas being taken secretly...
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    translated from Braga to Compostela by Diego Gelmírez according to the Historia Compostelana. Susanna is the co-patron of the city along with St. James. Saint...
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