ABSTRACT
The suddenness of the rehabilitation of Don Lucas historiador has been truly remarkable. Meanwhile, D. Lucas remains the enigmatic figure he always has been and, will always remain. Lucas acknowledged by Fernando III's chancery as its bishop. The implications of the possibility are interesting too, if only because ever since the publication of Fernandez Valverde's edition of the De rebus Hispanie in 1987 it has been apparent that D. Rodrigo's History was in large part based upon D. Lucas's Chronicle. Although bishop-elect of Tuy by December 1239, not until sometime between September 1240 and March 1241 was D. Lucas acknowledged by Fernando III's chancery as its bishop. He will scour the records for a late twentieth-century equivalent of Master Mateo travelling between University Paris 13 and St John's College Cambridge, and between St John's College Cambridge and University Paris 13.
