Coronel was born in Segovia the son of Diego Núñez de León.
He was educated at Salamanca before going to the Collège de Montaigu in Paris where he studied under John Major.
He was influenced by the Oxford "calculatores", Jean Dullaert, and Alvaro Thomaz.
Coronel left Paris following the arrival of Domingo de Soto[1] and moved to Flanders where he was a preacher in 1520.
[2][3] He became a secretary to the Archbishop of Seville, Alfonso Monrique, in 1527 and was then posted bishop to the Canary Islands where he died.