Vasco de Lobeira was a medieval

Middle Ages

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 writer to whom is attributed the prose original of the romance Amadis de Gaula

Amadis de Gaula

Amadis de Gaula is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Iberian Peninsula, and formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers, although it was written at the onset of the 14th century.The first known printed edition was published...

. In the Portuguese

Portugal

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 Chronicle of Gomes Eannes de Azurara

Gomes Eannes de Azurara

Gomes Eanes de Zurara , sometimes spelled Eannes or Azurara, was the second of the notable Portuguese chroniclers, after Fernão Lopes.- Life and career :Gomes Eanes de Zurara adopted the career of letters in middle life...

 (1454), the writing of Amadís is attributed to Vasco de Lobeira, who was dubbed knight

Knight

A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....

 after the Battle of Aljubarrota

Battle of Aljubarrota

The Battle of Aljubarrota was a battle fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile on 14 August 1385. Forces commanded by King John I of Portugal and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira, with the support of English allies, opposed the army of King John I of Castile with its...

 (1385). However, it seems that in fact it was João Lobeira

João Lobeira

João Lobeira was a Portuguese troubadour of the time of King Afonso III, who is supposed to have been the first to reduce into prose the story of Amadis de Gaula....

, and not the troubadour

Troubadour

A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....

 Vasco de Lobeira, and that rather than originating with him it was the revision

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of an earlier work from the beginning of the 14th century.