Fray Prudencio de Sandoval (1553–1620) was a Spanish historian and
Benedictine
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Bishop of Tuy
The Diocese of Tui-Vigo is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northwestern Spain. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela. from 1608 to 1612 and
Bishop of Pamplona
The Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela ( la, Pampilonen(sis) et Tudelen(sis)) is an archdiocese located in the cities of Pamplona and Tudela in Spain. thereafter until his death.
De Sandoval was born in
Valladolid
Valladolid () is a municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. It has a population around 300,000 peop ...
. He continued the chronicle begun by
Florián de Ocampo and
Ambrosio de Morales
Ambrosio de Morales (Cordoba, Spain, 1513 – ''ib.'', September, 1591) was a historian. After his studies at the University of Salamanca and Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá, he took Holy orders. Soon he was elected to the chair of ...
, and rather uncritically compiled a large collection of documents, making much use of Guevara y Mejía. His ''Historia de la vida y hechos del emperador Carlos V'' is a source of fundamental importance for the reign of
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. His ''Historia de los reyes de Castilla y León'' or ''Historia de los cinco reyes'' (Pamplona: 1615) includes some documentary and epigraphic material now lost. He died in
Pamplona
Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region.
Lying at near above ...
, and his last work, ''Crónica del ínclito emperador de España don Alonso VII'' (1660), was published posthumously.
Further reading
*José María Canal Sánchez-Pagín (1980), "Fray Prudencio de Sandoval, obispo e historiador (Familia y estudios)", ''Príncipe de Viana'', 41 (158–59): 161–90.
External links
Brief biography*
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16th-century Spanish historians
Spanish Benedictines
1553 births
1620 deaths
Bishops of Pamplona
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain
Writers from Valladolid
University of Salamanca alumni
17th-century Spanish historians