Marcos de GUADALAJARA Y JAVIER

A Discalced Carmelite friar, Marcos de Guadalajara y Javier (1560–1631) was a Spanish chronicler of his order and a theologian active under Philip III. He is chiefly associated with early seventeenth-century polemical writing in support of the expulsion of the Moriscos, notably Memorable expulsión (1613) and Prodición y destierro (1614), key printed testimonies within contemporary anti-Morisco propaganda. He also contributed to Catholic historiography by continuing and reworking Gonzalo de Illescas’s Historia pontifical, issuing a Quarta parte (1612) and a Quinta parte (published in the seventeenth century).