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The purpose of this article is to analyse poems in the Pero Lopez de Ayala’s Rimado de Palacio that refer to the Chancellor’s imprisonment in Portugal, and include pleas for deliverance as well as vows in which the poet promises to visit Marian shrines to venerate the Virgin. In this part of the book, Lopez de Ayala employs the image of chains, not only as a traditional symbol of imprisonment in a sinful world, but also in the context of the poet’s real imprisonment and the intention to present this material object as a votive offering. Aspects of the Marian section of the Rimado de Palacio can therefore be compared to texts found in collections of miracles and sermons which recorded the Virgin’s intervention in the deliverance of prisoners, the fulfilment of pilgrimage vows, and the presentation of ex-votos. The Chancellor on the one hand expresses his personal devotion, from an autobiographic perspective; and on the other he evokes the collective experience of past and present pilgrims at the shrines of Montserrat, Guadalupe and other holy places. At the same time, the poet associates his chains with those of St. Peter, and appeals for the unity of the papacy and the Church.

The Chancellor’s Chains: Ex-Votos and Marian Devotion in the «Rimado de Palacio»