Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán

Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán (1643–1700) was a Guatemalan criollo historian and poet.

[1] He was the great-great-grandson of the conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo,[1] historian of the Indies.

[2] In 1661, at the age of eighteen, Fuentes y Guzmán was given the position of Regidor Perpetuo de Guatemala (permanent councillor on the town council of Santiago).

[1] Fuentes y Guzmán sent it to Spain in apparently the vain hope of being named as Chronicler of the Kingdom of Guatemala.

[1] Large portions of the work were reproduced in the writing of diocesan priest Domingo de Juarros, published in the early 19th century.