Gonzalo de Illescas

Who was Gonzalo de Illescas?

Gonzalo de Illescas was a Spanish historian and abbot. Born in Dueñas, Palencia province, he was abbot of San Frontís de Zamora. He studied at Salamanca, and may have earned a degree in theology. He traveled in Italy.

He translated works from Latin and composed and published in various editions a Historia pontifical y cathólica. It recounts the lives of the popes from Saint Peter to Boniface VIII, as well as the Visigothic Kings, the Kings of Castile, and the Kings of Portugal.