[1][2][6] A poem of 1266 by King Alfonso X directed at the troubadour Pero da Ponte [es] mentions Bernal: "Vós nom trobades come proençal, / mais come Bernaldo de Bonaval; / por ende nom é trobar natural / pois que o del e do dem'aprendestes"[5][7][8][9] ("You do not compose like a Provençal / but like Bernaldo de Bonaval / and therefore your poetry-making is not natural / for you learned it from him and from the [D]evil").
[10]: 203 Bernal was also mentioned in verse by the troubadours Airas Peres Vuitoron [gl], João Baveca and Pedro (Pero) da Ponte.
[18] It is a version of Bernal's cantiga de amigo "Ai, fremosinha, se ben ajades", named from its refrain rather than from its first line.
[19][Note 3] Spanish musician Amancio Prada [es] included his version of Bernal's "A dona que eu amo" on his 1984 album Leliadoura.
[22] In 2012, Galician scholar Souto Cabo called him "uma das personalides poéticas mais célebres dos nossos cancioneros" ("one of the most famous poets in our songbooks").