Resumen de ¿Donde nació Fray Diego de Valencia, poeta del Cancionero de Baena?.
The franciscan Diego of Valencia, theologian and poet of the Cancionero de Baena refers to his native country in the verse "Yo menos que maestro, pero de Valencia". Since within the kingdom of León - to which he undoubtedly belonged - there were at least five countries with the same name of Valencia, the question naturally arises: to which one of these he was actually referring?. Departing from the premise that "maestro" is here equivalent not to a "doctor" but to a "maestre" or superior of a Military Order, and relying on historical and literary arguments, the author proposes his opinion that Diego intended to signify not, certainly, Valencia de Don Juan - as it has been repeatedly bequeathed to us for more than a century - but most probably Valencia of Alcántara which was under the domination of the Order of Alcántara. Two other verses of the author, "Por Alcántara regido / el mundo sea muy ancho", which are also here examined,tend to render the proposed opinion more credible.
