De Rodrigo a Rodrigo: Os testemunhos da conquista das Beiras por Fernando Magno na obra do Conde D. Pedro e a sua relação com as personagens de Rodrigo Dias de Vivar e de Rodrigo Froilaz de Trastâmara

Abstract

Although they are extensively analysed in the Crónica de 1344, the deeds of Fernando Magno are poorly described in the Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro, where its conquests in the Beiras are merely enumerated in the final part of a biographical summary about the life of Rodrigo Dias de Vivar, returning to this line of events only in the title dedicated to the Trava-Trastâmara, text where, following the exemple of the relation of the Cid with Sancho II, Rodrigo Froilaz de Trastâmara is presented as a champion of the fidelity of the portuguese aristocracy towards Garcia II, embodying in ancient times the opposition lived between Portugal and Castile in the XIVth century. In effect, this peerage book doesn't hold the same connection of the Crónica de 1344 towards the tradition passed from the Mocedades de Rodrigo to the famous Cronica de Castilla, that, besides putting Rodrigo Dias in the center of these conquests, turned him into the main agent of power of this monarch. Because of these circumstances, we will revisit the textual tradition developed around these campaigns, link the discourse of D. Pedro to the "cidian" universe and analyse the intervention of the Pereiras in this specific subject of the peerage book, aiming the construction of the character of Rodrigo Froilaz.