Frontispiece of the Crónica de Aragón (1499) showing the earliest illustration of the Aragonese coat-of-arms.
Vagad's magnum opus, the Crónica de Aragón, a vernacular Romance history of Aragon from the mythical Kingdom of Sobrarbe (founded 724) up to the death of Alfonso V (1458), was published in Zaragoza in 1499; its incunabula survive. It was commissioned by the deputies of Ferdinand II of Aragon, who named Vagad cronista mayor (senior chronicler), though the office of cronista was not formally instituted until the Cortes of Monzón in 1547.
For the work Vagad consulted the archives of San Juan de la Peña, San Victorián, Poblet, Montearagón, and Barcelona among other archives of the Crown of Aragon. In international matters he was a Spanish partisan and this bias enters into his history: he considered the Emperor Maximilian I a Spaniard and made the legendary Count Julian an Italian. In peninsular matters his Aragonese bias is evident, as when he devalues the conquest of Valencia by the Castilian folk hero El Cid (1094) relative to the conquest of the same city by James I of Aragon (1236). The work contains three prologues. In the first Vagad heaps praise on Spain in the tradition of Isidore'sLaus Spaniae; in the second he argues from history for the preeminence of Aragon amongst the kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula; and in the third he defends the importance of Zaragoza as the chief city of Spain. Preoccupied with style, his narrative is frequently interrupted by lengthy and banal arguments. Eduard Fueter, the Swiss historian of universal historiography, writes that Vagad's Crónica contains the "timid critical germs of the medieval tradition" (tímidos gérmenes de crítica de la tradición medieval).
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gualberto, fabricio, vagad, aragonese, cistercian, benedictine, monk, first, historian, kingdom, aragon, born, zaragoza, first, third, fifteenth, century, straddles, line, between, late, middle, ages, renaissance, lived, most, life, monastery, santa, maría, sa. Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad was an Aragonese Cistercian Benedictine monk and the first historian of the Kingdom of Aragon He was born in Zaragoza in the first third of the fifteenth century and straddles the line between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance He lived most of his life at the monastery of Santa Maria de Santa Fe though he also spent some time at San Juan de la Pena According to Felix de Latassa y Ortin besides history he wrote various treatises on poetry and a compendium of verse Frontispiece of the Cronica de Aragon 1499 showing the earliest illustration of the Aragonese coat of arms Vagad s magnum opus the Cronica de Aragon a vernacular Romance history of Aragon from the mythical Kingdom of Sobrarbe founded 724 up to the death of Alfonso V 1458 was published in Zaragoza in 1499 its incunabula survive It was commissioned by the deputies of Ferdinand II of Aragon who named Vagad cronista mayor senior chronicler though the office of cronista was not formally instituted until the Cortes of Monzon in 1547 For the work Vagad consulted the archives of San Juan de la Pena San Victorian Poblet Montearagon and Barcelona among other archives of the Crown of Aragon In international matters he was a Spanish partisan and this bias enters into his history he considered the Emperor Maximilian I a Spaniard and made the legendary Count Julian an Italian In peninsular matters his Aragonese bias is evident as when he devalues the conquest of Valencia by the Castilian folk hero El Cid 1094 relative to the conquest of the same city by James I of Aragon 1236 The work contains three prologues In the first Vagad heaps praise on Spain in the tradition of Isidore s Laus Spaniae in the second he argues from history for the preeminence of Aragon amongst the kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula and in the third he defends the importance of Zaragoza as the chief city of Spain Preoccupied with style his narrative is frequently interrupted by lengthy and banal arguments Eduard Fueter the Swiss historian of universal historiography writes that Vagad s Cronica contains the timid critical germs of the medieval tradition timidos germenes de critica de la tradicion medieval Sources editGualberto Fabricio de Vagad Archived 2014 08 03 at the Wayback Machine at the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad amp oldid 1158304487, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
