Alonso Hernández del Portillo

Alonso Hernández del Portillo (1543–1624) was a Spanish local politician and historian, remembered for being the first chronicler of the city of Gibraltar. one of the canonical works of the Spanish historiography about Gibraltar.

Work Hernández del Portillo chronicles the history of his city from its origins, which he set to be in the times of the Libyan and Ancient Greek Heracles (as a symbol of the Phoenician and Ancient Greek colonisation of the Iberian Peninsula), to his days. It also includes many legendary stories and almost lacks any information about the Moor period. The main value of his work is in his account of the facts he witnessed at first hand, a period not well known in the history of Gibraltar. A second edition, revised and expanded, was published in 2008, under the title History of Gibraltar . This second edition is the first issue of the collection Fuentes para la Historia del Campo de Gibraltar . Torremocha defines Portillo as a Renaissance Man.