2024/01/23 by Clara Pascual-Argente · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.7275/tl.1981
openalex publication_date 2024/01/23 · openalex created_date 2024/01/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
ThePoema de Alfonso Onceno (1348), which recounts the life and exploits ofKing Alfonso XI of Castile, contains several comparisons of participantsin the Battle of Río Salado (1340) to Carolingian heroes. Among them,there is a mysterious reference to a “King Fieles” of “Anglia” that does notappear in any known Carolingian narratives. This article proposes that this isin fact a character in the legend of famed lovers Floire and Blancheflor,grandparents of Charlemagne in the emperor’s mythical genealogy. The Poemade Alfonso Onceno would therefore contain the first known allusion to thestory in a Carolingian context in Castile and could perhaps point to thepresence at the Castilian court in the 1340s of the compilation that wouldeventually be the basis of the Crónica carolingia, around fifty years later.