Marcella LOPES GUIMARÃES

Original title: As memórias de D. Leonor López de Córdoba (1362/63-1430): uma poética do não esquecimento

Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History

Keywords: Eleanor Lopez of Cordova, Memoires, Peter of Castile, Trastamara.

The memoires of a Castilian lady Eleanor Lopez of Cordova consist on an unique document for three reasons: the female authorship within the context she was in, the autobiographic text and the support for the rightful faction defeated by the ascension of the Trastamara. Eleanor Lopez of Cordova is the daughter of Martin Lopez of Cordova, who was the Master of the Alcantara and Calatrava orders, and a rare survivor of the persecution that her family went through after her father’s death. With the marriage of Henry III and Catherine of Lancaster, she achieved a noteworthy prominence, which however, was once again dissembled by the complex royal and noble relations during the period of John II’s reing.