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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
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]
The Iglesia conventual de San Pablo or San Pablo de Valladolid is a church and former Dominican convent, of Isabelline style, in the city of Valladolid, in Castile and León, Spain. The church was commissioned by Cardinal Juan de Torquemada between 1445 and 1468. It was subsequently extended and refurbished until 1616.
Torquemada en la hoguera (1889) Torquemada en la Cruz (1893) Torquemada en el purgatorio (1894) Torquemada y San Pedro (1895) Torquemada, an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada; Torquemada (comics), the main villain (Tomás de Torquemada) from the comic strip Nemesis the Warlock in the British comic ...
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 ...
[1] [2] The only record appears in the Aubin Codex , and thanks to Spanish franciscan friar Juan de Torquemada who reported in his book , Monarquia Indiana according to the codex, that the earthquake "Was so strong that not only did many houses fall, but the mountains and mountains in many places they crumbled and fell apart".
Francisco de Borja (1503) Juan de Vera (1504) Antonio Trivulzio (1505) Gianstefano Ferrero (1506) (1507–1508, no information available) François Guillaume de Castelnau-Clermont-Ludève (1509) (1510–1511, no information available) Robert Guibé (1512) Leonardo Grosso della Rovere (1512–1513) Robert Guibé (1513) (1514–1515, no ...