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Magí Sivillà Magoles, also written Magí Sevilla (Santa Coloma de Queralt, October 26, 1597- Paris, 1656 or 1657) was a Catalan historian, doctor in theology, and chronicler.
He studied for an ecclesiastical degree, becoming a priest. He was a doctor in theology and a beneficiary of the church of Santa Coloma. During the Reaper's War of 1640, he fought for the Catalan-French side. In 1642 he was sent to Paris as the legal guardian of the children of the governor of Catalonia, Josep de Margarit i de Biure, who as the other leaders of the principality, sent his children to the French capital as a guarantee of the Catalan loyalty to the kings of France. He stayed there until his death. In 1643, he successfully made Louis XIV of France assume the sovereignty of the county of Santa Coloma.
Despite not leaving Paris, Sivillà was elected abbot of Besalú, Banyoles, and Sant Martí del Canigó. Since 1648, he made several arrangements serving the Catalan institutions, acting as an agent of the Generalitat and the Consell de Cent of Barcelona. He wrote a chronicle of major interest in the incidents that happened in Catalonia from 1600 to 1649.

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