GONZÁLEZ TELLEZ, MANUEL. - Spanish canonist and theologian, of the first half of the 17th century (d. 1640?). A pupil and doctor of the University of Salamanca, from 1635 professor of canon law at that University and at Cuenca. He was inquisitor at Valladolid, councillor and fiscal officer in the supreme council of the Holy Inquisition, and advocate at the royal court.
His Commentaria perpetua in singulos textus quinque librorum Decretalium Gregorii IX (4 vols. in folio, Lyons 1673 and subsequent eds.) deserve recommendation both for their philological learning and elegance of form, and for the soundness of their juridical doctrine. Of particular merit is the attention devoted therein to the history of the individual canonical institutions. He also wrote: Concilium Iliberitatum (Lyons 1665).