La rebeldí­a ante la figura de autoridad en el relato fundacional del condado de Castilla

Abstract

The foundational myth of the Castilian kingdom contains a series of events in which some heroes’ rebelliousness turns out to be fundamental in the mechanisms of rupture and distancing in regard of figures of authority. Rodrigo Dí­az de Vivar and count Fernán González are the most outstanding examples in a tradition of heroic characters that has its origin in the legend of the Jueces de Castilla. This archetype of the noble rebel hero remains in popular collective imagination, and we find it in many Spanish epic ballads and rewritten in historiographic texts composed in the sphere of nobility, in order to highlight the predominant role of nobility in Castilian history.