Illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pérez.
Married Doña Juana de Coello Bozmediano. Secretary and favourite of Philip II. Fell into disgrace and was tried and tortured in 1582. Contrived to escape, first to Aragon, afterwards to France and England, but was sent back to Portugal and died in Paris.
In his exile he wrote his "Memorial" to prove his own innocence and his master's guilt. Major Martin Hume thinks that "the moral portrait of the King (Philip II), still current in foreign countries, owes much to the literary talent with which Antonio Pérez presented his subtle sophistries."
(Españoles é ingleses en el siglo XVI.)
The picture by Sir Antonio More is in Paris.
Autograph of Barbara Blombergh
Mother of Don John of Austria by the Emperor Charles V.
Afterwards married to Jerome Kegel.
Died 1598.