Antonio de San Román de Ribadeneyra

Antonio de San Román de Ribadeneyra, also called San Román de Rivadeneira/Ribadeneira, was born in Palencia (Spain). He was a Benedictine monk at the monastery of San Zoil near Carrión de los Condes. He wrote an account of king Sebastião I’s disastrous 1578 invasion of Morocco and his death in battle, entitled Jornada y muerte del Rey Don Sebastião de Portugal. This work was published in 1603 (repr. 1670). Sebastiõ I was king of Portugal from 1554 to 1578. Antonio de San Román de Ribadeneyra wrote also among others Historia general de la Yndia Oriental (Valladolid, 1603).