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Fernão Lopes (c. 1380–after 1459)
Lopes or Lopez, Fernão (lō’pāth). The oldest of the Portuguese chroniclers; born about 1380; died after 1459. Appointed chief archivist of the kingdom by Dom João I. in 1434, he devoted his life to historical research and to the composition of chronicles, which for literary and critical value were unsurpassed in his century. His ‘Chronicle of Señor Don John I.,’ describing the great struggle between Portugal and Castile, has invited comparison with Froissart’s writings on account of its picturesqueness and dramatic reality. Equally vigorous are his chronicles of Dom Pedro I. and Don Fernando.