The Cronice ab origine mundi by Gonzalo de Hinojosa and Its Complementary Sources for the Trojan Cycle
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2025.39.1.113043Keywords:
Gonzalo de Hinojosa, Cronice ab origine mundi, Hispanic historiography, Martin of Opava, Mythographic manual, Trojan War, Medieval chroniclesAbstract
The Cronice ab origine mundi by Gonzalo de Hinojosa (circa 1265-1327), bishop of Burgos, pays particular attention to the Trojan cycle, which had aroused great interest among historians and the general public since antiquity and, of course, throughout the Middle Ages. Previous studies have already demonstrated that the main narrative for this epic cycle in the Cronice was taken from the work of Dares Phrygius’s De excidio Troiae historia. In this study, we analyse the peripheral or complementary sources to that narrative, which address the fortune of various combatants in that war. Through this approach, we seek to examine the presence of some lesser-known Latin sources employed in historiographical texts written in the Iberian Late Middle Ages, such as the Chronicon of Martin of Opava or certain mythographic materials closely related to the anonymous Liber de natura deorum.
Downloads
Métricas alternativas
References
Allen, Judson Boyce (1970), «An Anonymous Twelfth-Century ‘De natura deorum’ in the Bodleian Library», Traditio, 26, pp. 352-364.
Aubert, Stéphanie (2012), Les Cronice ab origine mundi de Gonzalo de Hinojosa, de la cathédrale de Burgos à la cour de France (XIVe siècle): biographie et edition d’une chronique universelle [Tesis de doctorado]. Lyon: Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Aubert, Stéphanie (2014), «La estratificación autorial en una crónica medieval: el caso de las Crónicas de Burgos», en Maud Le Guellec (ed.), El autor oculto en la literatura española, siglos XIV a XVIII. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, pp. 11-20. En línea: <https://books.openedition.org/cvz/20377> [consulta: 22/02/2023].
Brown, Virginia (1972), «An Edition of an Anonymous Twelfth-Century Liber de natura deorum», Medieval Studies, 34, pp. 1-70.
Castan, Auguste (1883), «Les Chroniques de Burgos, traduites pour le roi de France, Charles V, en partie retrouvées à la bibliothèque de Besançon», Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, 44, pp. 265-283.
Cirot, Georges (1913), Chronique latine des rois de Castille jusqu’en 1236. Bordeaux: Feret et Fils.
Díaz y Díaz, Manuel Cecilio (1959), Index Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi Hispanorum (2 vols.). Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca.
Faivre D’Arcier, Louis (2006), Histoire et géographie d’un mythe: la circulation des manuscrits du De excidio Troiae de Darès le Phrygien (VIIIe-XVe siècles). Paris: École nationale des chartes.
Flórez, Enrique [Padre] (1771), España Sagrada, t. XXVI. Madrid: Imprenta de Antonio Marín.
Flórez, Enrique [Padre] (1772), España Sagrada, t. XXVII. Madrid: Imprenta de Antonio Marín.
Giadás Quintela, Miguel (2016), A tradición de Dares Frixio no Medievo hispánico [Trabajo de Fin de Grado]. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. En línea: <https://minerva.usc.es/xmlui/handle/10347/15306> [consulta: 16/09/2021].
Giadás Quintela, Miguel (2022), «Tradiciones en contacto: una aproximación al canon mitográfico alfonsí a través de las Cronice ab origine mundi de Gonzalo de Hinojosa», Cahiers d’études hispaniques médiévales, 45, pp. 209-232. En línea: <https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-etudes-hispaniques-medievales-2022-1-page-209.htm> [consulta: 22/02/2023].
Giadás Quintela, Miguel (2023), As Cronice ab origine mundi de Gonzalo de Hinojosa (libros I-IV): estudo e edición. [Tesis de Doctorado]. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. En línea: <http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30879> [consulta: 22/02/2023].
Martínez Añíbarro y Rives, Manuel (1889), Intento de un diccionario biográfico y bibliográfico de autores de la provincia de Burgos. Madrid: Manuel Tello.
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón (1898), Catálogo de las crónicas generales de España. Madrid: Real Biblioteca.
Montalvo Sánchez, Juan José de (1928), De la historia de Arévalo y sus sexmos. Valladolid: Imprenta Castellana. [Edición facsímil: 1983].
Muñoz y Garnica, Manuel (1866), Nobleza del Andaluzia, que dedicó al rey don Felipe II Gonzalo Argote de Molina. Jaén: Tipografía de Francisco López Vizcaino.
Ordás Díaz, Pablo (2017), «¿Don Gonzalo Osorio de Villalobos o don Gonzalo de Hinojosa? Un episcopado olvidado en León, 1301-1313», e-Spania, 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/espania.26454
Salvo García, Irene (2012a), Ovidio en la “General estoria” de Alfonso X, [Tesis Doctoral]. Madrid/Lyon: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/École normale supérieure de Lyon.
Salvo García, Irene (2012b), «El mito de Icario en la General estoria de Alfonso X», Memorabilia: Boletín de literatura sapiencial, 14, pp. 145-160. En línea: <https://turia.uv.es//index.php/memorabilia/article/view/2081/1689> [consulta: 22/02/2023].
Saquero Suárez-Somonte, Pilar y González Rolán, Tomás (1993), «Aproximación a la fuente latina del Libro de las generaciones de los dioses de los gentiles utilizada en la General Estoria de Alfonso X el Sabio», Cuadernos de filología clásica: estudios latinos, 4, pp. 93-112.
Tilliette, Jean-Yves (2016), «Un dictionnaire alphabétique de la mythologie au 13e siècle: le Fabularius de Conrad de Mure», en Arnaud Zucker, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Jean-Yves Tilliette y Gisèle Besson (eds.), Lire les mythes: formes, usages et visées des pratiques mythographiques de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 225-236.
von den Brincken, Anna-Dorothee (2014), Martin von Troppau, Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum, Monumenta Germaniae Historica [edición digital]. En línea: <https://data.mgh.de/ext/epub/mt/index.htm> [consulta: 18/01/2022].
Zaragoza Pascual, Ernesto (2021), «Hinojosa (o Finojosa), Gonzalo de», en Diccionario biográfico electrónico. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia. En línea: <https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/50606/gonzalo-de-hinojosa> [consulta: 29/11/2021].
Zorzetti, Nevio (ed.) y Berlioz, Jacques (trad.) (1995), Le premier mythographe du Vatican. Paris: Les Belles Lettres [2ª edición: 2003].
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Miguel Giadás Quintela

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The opinions and facts stated in each article are the exclusive responsability of the authors. The University of Alcalá is not responsible in any case for the credibility and aunthenticity of the studies.
Authors will retain the rights on their work, even if they will be granting the journal a non-exclusive right of use to reproduce, edit, distribute, publicly communicate and show their work. Therefore, authors are free to enter into additional, independent contracts for non-exclusive distribution of the works published in this journal (such as uploading them to an institutional repository or publishing them in a book), as long as the fact that the manuscripts were first published in this journal is acknowledged.
Works are published under the terms stipulated in the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work under the following conditions:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
Funding data
-
Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Xunta de Galicia
Grant numbers ED481B-2024-18 -
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Grant numbers PID2021-127417NB-I00




