Gregorio de Lobariñas Feijó and his presumed extensive Galician

Abstract

Gregorio de Lobariñas Feijó (ca. 1577 – ca. 1637) was a cleric who wrote in Galician a History of Galicia that received the prescriptive license for publication in 1626 but never reached the printing press and was finally lost. Recently he was also identified as the author of the manipulated and linguistically modernized copy of the Chronicle of Santa Maria de Iria (15^th century) which is deposited in the Vatican Apostolic Library (Barb. Lat. 3578). In this article I explain that there are consistent indications that allow us to affirm that the kingdom of Galicia whose history Lobariñas recounted in the first of these two works was the medieval kingdom prior to Portuguese independence (1139), which included the north of Portugal. I also explain why it can be presumed that Lobariñas thought that the same language, an extensive Galician, was spoken throughout this northwestern Iberian territory.