Jerónimo Blancas

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Jerónimo Blancas
Portrait of Jerónimo Blancas
Chief Chronicler of the Kingdom of Aragon
In office
1581–1590
Preceded byJerónimo Zurita
Succeeded byJuan Costa y Beltrán

Jerónim de Blancas y Tomás, (Zaragoza, c.1530/40 - ibidem, 11 December 1590) was a Latinist and an influential legal historian active in the Crown of Aragon.

He studied at the University of Zaragoza. In 1576 he revised the second part of the Annals of the Crown of Aragon by Jerónimo Zurita at the request of the deputies of the Generalidad de Aragón. He succeeded to the post of Chief Chronicler of the Kingdom Aragon on the death of Jerónimo Zurita in 1580. After his death in 1590 he was buried in the monastery of Santa Engracia in Zaragoza.[1]

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