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=== Réal === |
=== Réal === |
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[[File:Eleanor of Aquitaine.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Queen Maria Platia de Carratéo, founder of Réal]] |
[[File:Eleanor of Aquitaine.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Queen Maria Platia de Carratéo, founder of Réal]] |
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The historian and scholar Escobo de la Noncerivero wrote in his memoirs of travelling the region and staying in the courts of nobles. He had a long conversation with Queen Maria Platia de Carratéo on the matter of the naming of her lands: |
The historian and scholar Escobo de la Noncerivero (1241 - 1280) wrote in his memoirs of travelling the region and staying in the courts of nobles. He had a long conversation with Queen Maria Platia de Carratéo on the matter of the naming of her lands: |
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''‘I enquired to her [Grace] the thought that planted in her head the name of her fair and mountainous heredad, cut through with rivers and bedecked with so many orchards. Her response was accompanied with a laugh, so charming as did I nearly mishear; “Good sir, the valleys and hills and mountains that I rule by providence of these good and noble gentlemen have been always a prize worthy of royal stewardship. It is only right and fair to the people that live here I give it a name to reflect this.’'' |
''‘I enquired to her [Grace] the thought that planted in her head the name of her fair and mountainous heredad, cut through with rivers and bedecked with so many orchards. Her response was accompanied with a laugh, so charming as did I nearly mishear; “Good sir, the valleys and hills and mountains that I rule by providence of these good and noble gentlemen have been always a prize worthy of royal stewardship. It is only right and fair to the people that live here I give it a name to reflect this.’'' |
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