[132] _Libro das Antiguidades_ (1549), f. 32 v.: _E daqui_ [_do Porto_] _foi natural uasco lobeira ̃q fez os primʳᵒˢ 4 libros de amadis, obra certo muj subtil e graciosa e aprouada de todos os gallantes, mas comos_ [so] _estas couzas se secão em nossas mãos os Castelhanos lhe mudarão a linguoagem e atribuirão a obra assi_ [so]. This passage is, however, absent in the earliest manuscript. The spelling _couzas_ implies a late date for its introduction. [133] So did Faria e Sousa, but he, too, had his Lobeira doubts, and after noting that Vasco de Lobeira was knighted by King João I says: ‘si ya no es que era otro del mismo nombre. Pero la Escritura de Amadis se tiene por del tiempo deste Rey don Iuan’ (_Fvente de Aganipe_ (Madrid, 1646), § 10). The obvious sympathy of the author for the _escudero viejo_ who is knighted in _Amadis_ (ii. 13, 14) amidst the laughter of the Court ladies is perhaps significant. [134] _Cronica de D. Fernando_, cap. 177. The year of his death, given as 1403, is quite uncertain. Soares de Brito in the _Theatrum_ forms no independent opinion: ‘Vascus de Lobeyra inter Lusitanos Scriptores enumeratur a Faria.... Floruit tempore Fernandi Regis.’ Antonio Sousa de Macedo, in _Flores de España_, also follows Faria: Vasco de Lobeira _fué el primero que con gentil habilidad escribió libros de caballerías_. Nicolás Antonio (1617-84), _Bib. Nov._, 1688 ed., ii. 322, says that Vasco de Lobeira _vulgo inter cives suos existimari solet auctor celeberrimi inter famosa scripti_ Historia de Amadis de Gaula ... _cuius laudes nos inter Anonymos curiose collegimus. Ostendere autem Lusitanos Amadisium hunc Lusitane loquentem, uti Castellani Castellanum ostendunt, ius et aequum esset in dubia re ne verbis tantum agerent._ The challenge in the last sentence is of interest, as coming in date between the two statements (by Leite Ferreira and the Conde da Ericeira) asserting the existence of the Portuguese text. [135] There was a Canon of Santiago of this name in 1295, and he may have come to the Portuguese Court on business concerning certain privileges of the Chapter which King Dinis confirmed in 1324. [136] _Hist. da Litt. Port._ i (1909). [137] In the document the only son mentioned is named Gonçalo. [138] Zurara, loc. cit., _cousas fingidas_; López de Ayala, _mentiras probadas_. According to D. Francisco de Portugal (_Arte de Galantería_, p. 146) such lies could only be written in Spanish (_en la Portuguesa no se podía mentir tanto_). Portugal was writing in Spanish. [139] _Agiologio Lusitano_, i (1652), p. 410: _E por seu mandado_ [of the Infante Pedro, son of João I] _trasladou de Frances em a nossa lingua Pero Lobeiro_ [so], _Tabalião d’Eluas, o liuro de Amadis._ § 2 _Epic and Later Galician Poetry_