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Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña
The Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña (or Crónica pinatense) is an Aragonese chronicle written in Latin around before 1359 in the monastery of San Juan de la Peña at the behest of Peter IV of Aragon. It was the first general history of Aragon and was probably designed both to justify the royal prerogatives of the Crown of Aragon against the baronage and to match the comparable Castilian work of a century earlier, the "Estoria de España". Between 1369 and 1372, Navarro
grieving, since his wife was a daughter of the king, who had also lost his heir, William Adelin, in the wreck. According to the "Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña", Rotrou took part in the conquests of Zaragoza (1118) and Tudela (1119), but this account has been shown to be apocryphal. Many French barons can be connected with the expedition against Zaragoza, but although his "Anales de la Corona de Aragón" name Rotrou as fighting under Alfonso of Aragon on several occasions