E-Spania ()
La figura de María de Molina como prudente pacificadora
Abstract
The impression of the queens in the documentation is far from reflecting the importance attributed to them in the Middle Ages: it remains difficult to reconstruct their human and political profile at its proper height. In the Crown of Castile, the queens were not simply queens, some of them exercised the full function as holders of the Crown (Urraca, Berenguela, Isabel la Católica), favorites had a remarkable political influence (Leonor de Guzmán, Maria de Padilla), but Maria de Molina, wife, mother and grandmother of kings, shines with her own light. The historiographic and biographical account shows that after the chroniclers Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid and the Jofré de Loaysa, Tirso de Molina brought Marie de Molina into written history and popular culture, developing the image of prudent widowed queen, besieged of aspirants, who think only of defending the throne of his son. After the historian Enrique Flórez of the end of the eighteenth century and Mercedes Gaibrois, the reference biographer of María de Molina, one wonders today about his political management, the construction of his conciliatory spirit, the cultural context, the influences Franciscanism and especially the Dominican order. Neither cowardly nor weak, María de Molina does not direct the war, but does not stop using it. His enemies recognize him as a great administrator, anxious to rebuild his alienated heritage. The chroniclers extolling her virtues, without comparing her to those of men, endeavor to delicately draw her exquisite femininity of wife and mother, her great sense of the state, her prudent governance and her ability to handle concord.
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