Gonzalo de Berceo

Gonzalo de Berceo was born at the end of the twelfth century in Berceo, in La Rioja, near the Benedictine monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, where he was raised. A secular cleric, he was a deacon in the early 1220s, then a priest from 1237, and it is thought that he was trained in the general studies of Palencia. He wrote in the Riojan dialect lives of saints connected with the monastery, poems to the Virgin and religious treatises, in the learned form of the mester de clerecía. Some critics see him as a defender of the interests of San Millán.

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