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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 ...
In 1484, Spanish inquisitor Torquemada, based in Nicholas Eymerich's Directorium Inquisitorum, wrote his twenty eight articles code, Compilación de las instrucciones del oficio de la Santa Inquisición (i.e. Compilation of the instructions of the office of the Holy Inquisition).
Tomás de Torquemada, 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and Grand Inquisitor. An inquisitor was an official (usually with judicial or investigative functions) in an inquisition – an organization or program intended to eliminate heresy and other things contrary to the doctrine or teachings of the Catholic faith.
Grand Inquisitor (Latin: Inquisitor Generalis, literally Inquisitor General or General Inquisitor) was the highest-ranked official of the Inquisition.The title usually refers to the inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, in charge of appeals and cases of aristocratic importance, even after the reunification of the inquisitions.
Ezio retrieves the atlas and brings it to Luis, who before leaving, reveals that most of the Spanish Assassin Brotherhood has been arrested by Tomás de Torquemada as part of the Spanish Inquisition. Returning to Antonio, Ezio announces that his search for the Apple will have to be postponed, because he is travelling to Spain to reform the ...
In 1487, Innocent confirmed Tomas de Torquemada as Grand Inquisitor of Spain. Also in 1487, Innocent issued a bull Id Nostri Cordis [ 10 ] denouncing the views of the Waldensians (Vaudois), offering plenary indulgence to all who should engage in a Crusade against them.
Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio, Texas arrested two Venezuelan nationals during a crackdown on the violent transnational gang Tren de Aragua.
Tomas de Torquemada was a prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition. 150 sodomites were executed by burning in Spain from 1570 to 1630. The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain, as the Spanish Inquisition was formally known, was therefore under the control of its monarchs.