El zaldiko del Privilegio de la Unión: puntualizaciones y correcciones [The centaur of the Union Privilege: clarifications and corrections]

Abstract

King Charles III enacted the Privilege of the Union of Pamplona on May the 8th, 1423. An image of a centaur playing a pipe can be seen in a copy of this privilege. Thus, the relevance acquired by the commemoration of the ephemerides during the last years has leaded to the recovery of the instrument and even to the incarnation of the character represented in the image. However, some information published about this character and the document in which it is represented is erroneous. This work aims at clarifying these inaccuracies and defends that the image of the centaur is not medieval and that it has probably nothing to do with the Privilege and its celebration.