Resumen de De la biografia històrica a la novel.la cavalleresca: el paper dels cavallers francesos al "Victorial" i al "Curial e Güelfa"
Between 1400 and 1412 (forty years before the writing of Curial e Güelfa), a reduced number of French and Catalan soldiers and knights —Boucicaut, Guillaume du Chastel and Pere Cervelló— were involved in a series of chivalric warfare and military actions, which must have been the inspiration for the composition of some Catalan (Curial e Güelfa) and French fictions (Le petit Jehan of Saintré by Antoine de La Sale). Taking into account the references to these characters, places, and actions included in El Victorial —Count Pero Niño's Castilian biography—, this article tries to analyze the impact of the fame of these European knights, whose outstanding feats were widely celebrated by history, legends and fiction throught the fifteenth century.
