{"id":3289,"date":"2010-06-08T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T07:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gomara-francisco-lopez-de\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:51:28","slug":"gomara-francisco-lopez-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gomara-francisco-lopez-de\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00f3mara, Francisco L\u00f3pez de"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Francisco<\/strong> <strong>L\u00f3pez de<\/strong><strong> G<\/strong><strong>\u00f3mara <\/strong><strong>(1510-1566)<\/strong> was born in Seville and later retired there in 1557, where it is believed he also died. He was an ordained <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gomara2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23265\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gomara2.jpg\" alt=\"Gomara2\" width=\"127\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>priest and in 1540, became the private and domestic chaplain to Hernando Cortez. He wrote a number of historical works, including a general history of the Indies <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>332<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>. Prince Philip, later Philip II of Spain, banned all his works in 1553. The relevant chapter in Hispania Victrix, in which he expressed his views on Atlantis, is available in English online<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>, as is the original Spanish text<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Gomara\u2019s acceptance of Plato\u2019s Atlantis narrative and the 9,000 years mentioned by him, brought him into conflict with the church authorities, because it contradicted the church\u2019s teaching of the day which proclaimed the Earth could not be older than 5,000 years!<\/p>\n<p>G\u00f3mara, following the Spanish invasion of America, was probably the first, in 1553, to\u00a0suggest that the newly discovered continent was either Atlantis itself or the land beyond it.\u00a0He cited Plato to support the proposition that the Native Americans were survivors of Atlantis. This was an idea that was adopted by many of his contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00f3mara was certain that Christopher Columbus had read Plato\u2019s <em>Timaeus <\/em>and <em>Critias, <\/em>suggesting that they gave added impetus to his westward voyage of discovery.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/goacutemara-on-atlantis.html\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/goacutemara-on-atlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/Hispania_Victrix.html?id=yBt3FLK1eUcC&amp;redir_esc=y\">https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/Hispania_Victrix.html?id=yBt3FLK1eUcC&amp;redir_esc=y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco L\u00f3pez de G\u00f3mara (1510-1566) was born in Seville and later retired there in 1557, where it is believed he also died. He was an ordained priest and in 1540, became the private and domestic chaplain to Hernando Cortez. He wrote a number of historical works, including a general history of the Indies [332]. Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1585,288,1090],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christopher-columbus","tag-francisco-lopez-de-gomara","tag-hernando-cortez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66543,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/66543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}