Quotes:Gomara, Francisco López de

Zirkoff, Boris

Gomara, Francisco López de. Spanish historian, b. at Gomara, Soria, Spain, ca. 1510; d. at Seville, ca. 1560. As private chaplain to Hernando Cortés, obtained from him and others information enabling him to write account of the Spanish conquest of the Antilles, Peru, Chile, Central America and Mexico, publ. as Historia de las Indias y Crónica de la conquista de Nueva España, Medina, 1553. Never went to America himself, and his work is so biased and inaccurate that from 1553 to 1727 its publication was prohibited in Spain, although it was reportedly published elsewhere. At one time it was mistaken for the Chronicle of Chimalpain, an Aztec writer at the close of the 16th century. Bernal Diaz (q.v.) wrote his account partially to correct the errors of Gomara.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 530