Diego De Yepes

Diego De Yepes a Spallish prelate and historian, was born at Yepes, near Toledo, in 1531. He joined the order of the Hieronymites, and became successively bishop of Albarracin, confessor of the king, Philip II, and bishop of Tarragona. He died in 1614, leaving, Historia de la Persecucion de Ingalaterra (Madrid, 1599): — Vida de la Madre Teresa de Jesus (ibid. eod.; Saragossa, 1606): — De la Muerte del Rey Felipe Segundo (Milan, 1607). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.