Oviedo to León
Peter Linehan
Abstract Fernando I (1037–65) had begun his reign by having himself anointed at Leon cathedral, the Historia reports. There are two remarks to be made about this. One is that whereas imperial and royal anointings of Carolingians Anglo-Saxons were customarily staged on Sundays or major feast-days, 22 June 1038 was an ordinary Thursday no particular consequence. The other event reported all. Whether it because monastic historian a Leonese patriot interested in enhancing Leon's reputation, he not bishop, description occasion broke 170-year long conspiracy silence which Sampiro instituted own contemporary Pelayo Oviedo contrived maintain. It therefore sheds little light question changing attitudes past present mid-12th-century northern Spain.
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