Jerónimo Román de la Higuera

Jerónimo Román de la Higuera (28 August 1538 – 14 November 1611) was a Spanish Jesuit archaeologist, historian and forger.

[1] His parents were María Álvarez Romano y Cuéllar and Alonso Fernández de la Higuera.

[5] In 1594, he proposed, on the basis of a document he had recently discovered, that the remains of a building recently excavated by Juan Bautista Monegro [es] on the site of a future hospital in Toledo belonged to a Mozarabic chapel dedicated to Saint Thyrsus (San Tirso).

His questionable historical reasoning and his insistence that Thyrsus be recognized as a patron saint of the city and that the hospital project be shelved in favour of a new chapel made him many enemies in Toledo.

These works, attributed to Flavius Lucius Dexter, Maximus of Zaragoza, Liutprand of Cremona and Julián Pérez, were in fact forged by Higuera.