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Juan de Torquemada was born in Valladolid, Spain. [1] " There is a general historical consensus that the family were former Jews". [2] Though those converso origins are very often stated without providing any source, [3] they are "based primarily on Hernando del Pulgar’s statement that Juan de Torquemada’s abuelos were converts from the Jewish faith". [2]
Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, active as missionary in colonial Mexico and considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of his generation." [1] Administrator, engineer, architect and ethnographer, he is most famous for his monumental work commonly known as Monarquía indiana ("Indian Monarchy"), a survey of the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of ...
Juan de Torquemada may refer to: Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388—1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical author; uncle to Inquisitor, Tomás de Torquemada Fray Juan de Torquemada ( c. 1562 – c. 1624 ), Spanish Franciscan friar, missionary and historian of the New World
Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World
Manuel Ramil (born 8 March 1978 in Ares, A Coruña, Spain) is a Spanish musician, best known as the former keyboardist for the Power metal band WarCry and Torquemada and as the current keyboardist of alternative/power metal band Sauze, formed by himself, along with Alberto Ardines, Fernando Mon, and Toni Amboaje.
Several are famous for their works on theology, e.g. Durandus of Saint-Pourçain, Juan de Torquemada, Sylvester Mazzolini 'Prierias', Thomas Maria Mamachi and Giuseppe Agostino Orsi. The majority were Italians, ten Spaniards, ten Frenchmen, one German, and one an Englishman (William de Boderisham, or Bonderish, 1263–1270?).
He is the author of two major works. His Relación de Texcoco was written in response to the Relación geográfica ca.1580. [1] According to references by Fray Juan de Torquemada, he was born around 1535 at Texcoco. He was the great grandson of Nezahualcoyotl, and was of mixed indigenous and Spanish heritage on his father's side. Considered ...
Tomás de Torquemada [a] OP (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Roman Catholic Dominican friar and first Castillian Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office, which was a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 and charged with the somewhat ill-defined task of "upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy" within the lands of the ...