Friar Bernardo de Brito OCist (20 August 1569 – 27 February 1617) was a Portuguese monk and historian.
[3][4] His father wished he joined the military; we was sent abroad to study in Rome and Florence, where he became fluent in Latin, Italian, and French.
[6] He devised a project of a monumental History of Portugal, in eight volumes, from the Creation to his time, which he called Monarchia Lusytana.
As it pleased the monarch (who issued a congratulatory Royal Charter on 3 April 1597[5]), he continued the project and published volume two in 1609.
[5] He died in 1617 and was buried in the Convent of Our Lady of Aguiar, in Castelo Rodrigo, and later, in 1649, his remains were reinterred in the Chapter House of the Alcobaça Monastery.