Gil González Dávila (historian)

Gil González Dávila[a] (1570–1658) was a Spanish archivist, courtier and chronicler.

He spent his early years in Rome, where he was educated at the residence of Cardinal Deza.

He was called to Madrid and made historiographer to the Crown of Castile in 1612, and for the Indies in 1641.

), and his Teatro Eclesiastico, descriptive of the metropolitan churches and cathedrals of Castile, with lives of the prelates (Madrid, 1645–1653, 4 vols.

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