About Jerónimo de Cevallos
Lived 1560 – 1641 (aged 80–81). Jerónimo de Cevallos was a Spanish jurist.
Jerónimo de Cevallos by El Greco. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Jerónimo de Cevallos (1560 - 22 July 1641) was a Spanish jurist. He was the subject of El Greco's Portrait of Jerónimo de Cevallos in 1613.
Life Born in Escalona, Toledo, he studied at the University of Valladolid and the University of Salamanca. He served as a lawyer in both Toledo and his hometown. He married in Toledo, where he also later died.
He published five books, including Speculum practicarum et variarum quaestionum opinionum communium contra communes (1599). According to several sources he was a friend and protector of Jorge Manuel, El Greco's son.
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Spanish jurist
When was Jerónimo de Cevallos born?
Jerónimo de Cevallos was born in 1560 in Escalona.
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Jerónimo de Cevallos died on 22 July 1641 in Toledo.
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Jerónimo de Cevallos was a jurist.
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Jerónimo de Cevallos was Spanish.
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