Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad

Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad was an Aragonese Cistercian monk and the first chronicler of the Kingdom of Aragon, born in Zaragoza in the first third of the fifteenth century.

Commissioned by the deputies of Ferdinand II, who named him senior chronicler, he wrote the Crónica de Aragón in the vernacular, from the legendary kingdom of Sobrarbe to the death of Alfonso V in 1458. He consulted archives across the Crown of Aragon for his research.

In its prologues he argued for the preeminence of Aragon and the importance of Zaragoza. The work was printed in Zaragoza in 1499.