A remark by Prof. Juan Gil in his historiographical study of the XI-XIII
centuries prompted the writing of this paper, which is an attempt to
track down the two current traditions about the figure of king Wamba
(672-680). One considers him to be a monk who died in Pampliega
(Historia de rebus Hispanie, Chronicon Mundi, Crónica de Alfonso III,
Primera Crónica General de España); the other, represented by the
Chronica Naierensis, believes him to be buried somewhere in the threefold place -name Castella-Valle Monio-ecclesia Sancti Petri.
The author concludes that in fact both interpretations refer to the same
place, which in one case is known as Pampliega, a village in Burgos, but
also as Saint Peter's church, in Pampliega. No contradiction therefore exists
between the old tradition and that ofthe Chronica Naierensis.
