 The ferrous landmarks explain the Basque toponym "gurutzgorris" and the Spanish "cruces rojas", both meaning "red crosses".In 1160 the "Vézelay Chronicle" recorded the cross as the southern boundary of the domain of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married Louis VII of France.The twelfth-century "Liber" mentions not only the cross, but also the hospice called "Rotolandus", Charlemagne's chapel, and the rock split by Durendal, the sword of Roland, and his tomb at Blaye.