Abstract
This paper discusses how the damnatio memoriae imposed by king Afonso V on infant D. Pedro in the backdrop of the Battle of Alfarrobeira, in 1449, as well as the revocation of such penalty, in 1455, are reflected on the chronicles by Gomes Eanes de Zurara. It is shown that in the period in which the aforementioned damnatio memoriae prevailed, Zurara wrote, under king’s orders, his two first works: the Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta and the Crónica de Guiné, reason why the infant D. Pedro as a character, while not forgotten, is remembered unfavorably by the chronicler. However, in the last two zurarian chronicles, namely, the Crónica do Conde D. Pedro de Meneses and the Crónica do Conde D. Duarte de Meneses, composed after the official rehabilitation of the memory of the former regent by the monarch, a mnemonic redemption of D. Pedro is observed.
Keywords
Chronicles; Damnatio memoriae; History, memory and forgetting; Infant D. Pedro; Zurara, Gomes Eanes de