Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña

The Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña (or Crónica pinatense) is an Aragonese chronicle written in Latin around before 1359 in the monastery of San Juan de la Peña at the behest of Peter IV of Aragon.

It was the first general history of Aragon and was probably designed both to justify the royal prerogatives of the Crown of Aragon against the baronage and to match the comparable Castilian work of a century earlier, the Estoria de España.

As early as 1345 Peter IV had asked the monasteries of San Juan and Ripoll to begin compiling material for a general history of the realm.

Only those sections (approximate a third) dealing with events specific to the monastery were probably written in it.

The materials compiled at Ripoll and San Juan were eventually sent to Barcelona to be worked together.