Gerónimo Abarca de Bolea y Portugal
Gerónimo Abarca de Bolea y Portugal († after 1547 in Valladolid ) was an Aragonese nobleman and historian living in the first half of the 16th century .
Abarca de Bolea, whose family had married into the Portuguese royal family, withdrew to his estate in Cadrete due to his poor health and wrote a history of the Kingdom of Aragón in Latin . However, he could not complete it and it was never published. This historical account was an important source for Jeronimo Zurita , who praised its reliability in particular and said that Abarca could have finished his work had no further treatment of this topic been necessary. Abarca died after 1547 in Valladolid, where he had resided as the Aragonese ambassador in the Spanish part of the empire of Emperor Charles V.
literature
- Abarca de Bolea y Portugal (Don Jérôme de) , in: Nouvelle Biographie Générale , vol. 1 (1852), col. 33.
- Abarca de Bolea y Portugal, Geronimo . In: Biographical dictionary of the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge , Vol. 1 (1842), p. 33.
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| SURNAME | Abarca de Bolea y Portugal, Gerónimo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Aragonese nobleman and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1547 |
| Place of death | Valladolid |