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  2. Spanish Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    According to some modern estimates, around 150,000 people were prosecuted for various offences during the three-century duration of the Spanish Inquisition, of whom between 3,000 and 5,000 were executed, approximately 2.7 percent of all cases. [1]

  3. Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Henningsen and Jaime Contreras studied the records of the Spanish Inquisition, which list 44,674 cases of which 826 resulted in executions in person and 778 in effigy (i.e. a straw dummy was burned in place of the person). [22] William Monter estimated there were 1000 executions in Spain between 1530–1630 and 250 between 1630 and 1730 ...

  4. Category:Victims of the Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    People executed by the Spanish Inquisition (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Victims of the Inquisition" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.

  5. Death by burning - Wikipedia

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    Estimates ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 burnt at the stake (alive or not) at the behest of the Spanish Inquisition during its 300 years of activity have previously been given and are still to be found in popular books. [39] In February 1481, in what is said to be the first auto-da-fé, six Marranos were burnt alive in Seville. In November 1481 ...

  6. Witch trials in Spain - Wikipedia

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    He managed to have an unknown number of people executed and their property confiscated. [1] Witch trials were at this point a new crime in Spain, and in August 1525 the Spanish Inquisition ended the Navarre witch trials and issued an investigation as to how such trials should be investigated. [1]

  7. Mexican Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Mexican Inquisition was an extension of the events that were occurring in Spain and the rest of Europe for some time. Spanish Catholicism had been reformed under the reign of Isabella I of Castile (1479– 1504), which reaffirmed medieval doctrines and tightened discipline and practice.

  8. Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    A similar occurrence happened in 1114 during the bishops absence in Strassburg. In 1145 clergy at Liège managed to rescue victims from the crowd. [4] The first medieval inquisition, the episcopal inquisition, was established in the year 1184 by a papal bull of Pope Lucius III entitled Ad abolendam, "For the purpose of

  9. Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain - Wikipedia

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    The forced conversions of Muslims in Spain were enacted through a series of edicts outlawing Islam in the lands of the Spanish Monarchy. This persecution was pursued by three Spanish kingdoms during the early 16th century: the Crown of Castile in 1500–1502, followed by Navarre in 1515–1516, and lastly the Crown of Aragon in 1523–1526. [1]