Fray Alonso de Espinosa

Friar and historian · c. 1543–c. 1600

Fray Alonso de Espinosa
Contemporánea Religion 16th Century Chronicler of Candelaria

Friar and historian

A Dominican friar and historian, he published in 1594 a work on Our Lady of Candelaria that preserves one of the most cited early descriptions of Tenerife and the Guanches.

Historical role

Timeline

  1. c. 1543 Fray Alonso de Espinosa is born in Tenerife.
  2. c. 1600 Fray Alonso de Espinosa dies.

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