Fray Juan de Torquemada

Fray (or Brother) Juan de Torquemada (ca. 1562, Torquemada, Old Castile, Spain - 1624, Mexico City) was a Franciscan friar, missionary and historian in Spanish colonial Mexico. He is most famous for his 1615 monumental history of the Indigenous entitled Los veinte y un libros rituales y Monarchia Indiana, commonly known as simply Monarchia Indiana ("Indian Monarchies"). This work, which has never been published in English, was reprinted in Spanish in 1969 as volumes 41 - 43 of the Biblioteca Porrua.

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