Las crónicas de Sancho IV: un indicio de la producción cronística durante los “oscuros” años posteriores a la muerte de Alfonso X

Abstract

Alfonso X’s decease did not mean the total cessation of historiographical activity in Medieval Castilla, but rather its continuation through a diversity of production centers, not necessarily managed by a regal figure. Although today there are no testimonies of chronicles of the period between 1284 and the mid 13th century that relate the reigns of Alfonso X, Sancho IV and Fernando IV, there are at least four different chronicles that refer to those years, whose sources might have been drafted in the span of the mentioned lapse of time: the Crónica de tres reyes, the Loaysa’s Crónica de los reyes de Castilla, la *Historia hasta 1288 dialogada, and the version transmitted by the manuscript 1342 of the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (N3) called Historia en décadas by Diego Catalán. The huge gap that exists between these works turns debatable any assertion that seeks to establish a genealogical relationship among each other, which obliges us to propose the existence of an abundant pre-existing documentation on which the scribes would have based their texts which ostensibly revel, in a comparative study that the present paper aims to carry out, diverse political orientations.