biography
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Sandoval, Fray Prudencio de
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pronunciation:
[sandohval]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1553–1620)
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| biography:
| Benedictine chronicler, born in Valladolid, NWC Spain. He became Bishop of Túy in 1608 and in 1612 Bishop of Pamplona. He continued the chronicles of Florián de Ocampo and Ambrosio de Morales, but is useful only for the numerous documents he inserted, since he lacked a critical sense, interspersing legends with established facts, and was unaware of the need to check unsupported assertions by authors, among them Guevara and Mejía, whom he copied, without acknowledgment. His most substantial books are Historia de la vida y hechos del Emperador Carlos V (2 vols, Valladolid, 1604–6), often reprinted in the 17th-c and most recently in 1847–9 (9 vols); and Historia de los Reyes de Castilla y de León (Pamplona, 1615), usually known as the Historia de los cinco reyes, the five rulers in question being Fernando I, Sancho II, Alfonso VI, Doña Urraca, and Alfonso VII. |
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