The house chronicle of the counts of Barcelona. Its first version ends with Ramon Berenguer IV in 1162, so the lines on Alfonso II and the young Peter II, king since 1196, come from the later continuation and are brief: the succession, the Provencal inheritance under Peter's brother Alfonso, and the Pyrenean counties. For 1200 it gives the dynasty's own account of what it held, not events. Thin and late for this year; the Liber Feudorum Maior is the real evidence.
About this source
- Title
- Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium
- Author
- Anonymous (monks of Santa Maria de Ripoll)
- Written
- first version 1162 to 1184; continued in the later 13th century; final version 1303 to 1314
- Language
- Latin, with a Catalan version of 1268 to 1283
- Covers
- 878 to 1299
- Kind
- History
No free online copy of any edition was located in this pass; the 1688 Marca Hispanica is certainly digitised somewhere but was not found.
Where to read it
Editions
- L. Barrau-Dihigo and J. Masso Torrents (eds), Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium, Croniques catalanes 2 (Barcelona, 1925); not free online as far as found (not freely online)
- S. M. Cingolani (ed.), Les Gesta Comitum Barchinonensium (versio primitiva), la Brevis Historia i altres textos de Ripoll (2012), not free (not freely online)
- Earlier print in P. de Marca and E. Baluze, Marca Hispanica (Paris, 1688), appendix; not located online in this pass (not freely online)