Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita

Juan Ruiz (c. 1283–c. 1350), known as the Archpriest of Hita, was a Castilian cleric and poet, born in Alcalá de Henares and probably educated in Toledo. He wrote El Libro de buen amor, a mixture of fables, parodies, love adventures and comic autobiography, completed around 1343.

In his verse he says he was imprisoned on the order of the Archbishop of Toledo. He died around 1350, regarded as the greatest Castilian poet of his century.