| Summary: | The renowned Diego Gelmírez, first the Bishop, then later the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1100-1140), had abundant connections with France. He was associated with the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Cluny in Burgundy, with the master of eloquence whom he sent for from France, with the canons whom he sent, with Raymond of Burgundy, Count of Galicia, with the latter’s brother, Pope Calixtus II, with the creation of Pseudo Turpín and the Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela, with the journey he made to Rome in 1105 crossing through France and also the journey he would like to have made in 1119 to Clermont, and with “the French Way”.This article studies the historiographical tradition which underlies the role attributed to France, analyses the political moves undertaken by Hugo de Cluny and Richard of St. Victor de Marseilles in the era of AlfonsoVI of Castile and Leon, draws attention to the alliances established by Gelmirez during the decades in which he administered his church, and shows how, in the difficult circumstances due to royal and papal demands, Diego Gelmirez knew how to turn to his own advantage and to the advantage of his see, all the foreign, ecclesiastical and secular powers of his time.
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