Please answer the following question: What key details about fernão lopes  can be extracted from the following bio?  Bio: fernão lopes -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- c. 1385 -- after 1459 -rrb- was a portuguese chronicler appointed by king edward of portugal . fernão lopes wrote the history of portugal , but only a part of his work remained . his way of writing was based on oral discourse , and , on every page , it revealed his roots among the common people . he is one of the fathers of the european historiography , or a precursor of the scientific historiography , basing his works always on the documental proof , and , has he said , on his pages `` one can not find the beauty of words but the nudity of the truth . '' he was an autodidact . by the time of his death , a new kind of knowledge was arising , a latinized scholasticism that involved imitations of the classics . he was born sometime between 1380 and 1390 , and he belonged to the generation that came of age after the war with castile and the battle of aljubarrota . during his life , he knew many of the protagonists of the castilian crisis , including john i of portugal , edward of portugal , nuno Álvares pereira , and dr. joão das regras . he saw the reign of three monarchs : john i , edward i , and afonso v , and he also lived during the regency of pedro , duke of coimbra . portugal saw many social and political changes in his time , such as : the growth of the new nobility of the ` illustrious generation ' -lrb- Ínclita geração -rrb- -lrb- the children of john i and philippa of lancaster -rrb- ; the conquest of ceuta ; the insurrection of lisbon against the queen mother , leonor of aragon ; the election of pedro , duke of coimbra , to the regency ; a civil war between pedro and afonso v ; and the subsequent battle of alfarrobeira , where pedro died . at the end of his life , lopes witnessed the beginning of portugal 's maritime empire . in 1418 , fernão lopes was appointed by john i as the head -lrb- `` guardião-mor '' -rrb- of the royal archives -lrb- ` torre do tombo ' -rrb- . in 1434 , king edward appointed fernão lopes as the first royal chronicler -lrb- `` cronista-mor ''...
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- death place is lisbon , kingdom of portugal- signature is assinatura fernão lopes.svg- caption is supposed gonçalves ' são vicente de fora panels . portrait of fernão lopes , from the nuno- death date is c. 1460- birth date is c. 1385- name is fernão lopes- nationality is portuguese- image is fernao lopes.jpg- birth place is lisbon , kingdom of portugal- occupation is chronicler