(Gómara, 1511 - ca. 1566)
"Francisco López de Gómara (Gómara, Soria, 1511-ibidem, 1566) fue un eclesiástico e historiador español que destacó como cronista de la de México, a pesar de que nunca atravesó el océano Atlántico. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, en su obra Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España, desmiente en múltiples ocasiones el relato hecho por Gómara. Hay que recordar que Bernal Díaz del Castillo no fue uno de los pocos, si no que es el único invasor, que participó en las tres expediciones que se hicieron a las costas de México, en la última de las cuales ya participa Hernán Cortés como capitán, por lo que lo escrito por Bernal Díaz del Castillo se considera la crónica verdadera, por haber participado él en la invasión hasta su consecución.[cita requerida]"
"Francisco López de Gómara (February 2, 1511 - c. 1566) was a Spanish historian who worked in Seville, particularly noted for his works in which he described the early 16th century expedition undertaken by Hernán Cortés in the Spanish conquest of the New World. Although Gómara himself did not accompany Cortés, and had in fact never been to the Americas, he had firsthand access to Cortés and others of the returning conquistadores as the sources of his account. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticised his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which unjustifiably sanitised the events and aggrandised Cortés' role. As such, the reliability of his works may be called into question; yet they remain a valuable and oft-cited record of these events."