CARTAGENA (1396-1456), a Spanish historian, was born at Cartha gena, succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos, and was sent by John II. of Castile to the Council of Basle in 1431.
His principal work is Rerum Hispanorum Romanorum im peratorum, summorum ponti ficum, nec non regum Francorum anaceplialeosis, a history of Spain from the earliest times down to 1456; it was printed at Granada in 1545, and in the Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores aliquot, by R. Bel (Frankfort,