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  2. Spanish Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Inquisitor General, in charge of the Holy Office, was designated by the crown. The Inquisitor General was the only public office whose authority stretched to all the kingdoms of Spain (including the American viceroyalties), except for a brief period (1507–1518) during which there were two Inquisitors General, one in the kingdom of Castile ...

  3. Grand Inquisitor - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Pedro Moya de Contreras - Wikipedia

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    Pedro Moya de Contreras (sometimes Pedro de Moya y Contreras) (c. 1528, Pedroche, Córdoba Province, Spain – December 21, 1591, Madrid) was a prelate and colonial administrator who held the three highest offices in the Spanish colony of New Spain, namely inquisitor general, Archbishop of Mexico, and Viceroy of Mexico, September 25, 1584 – October 17, 1585.

  5. Inquisitor - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Fernando de Valdés y Salas - Wikipedia

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    He was member of the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition from 1516, Bishop of Ourense (1529–1532), Bishop of Oviedo (July 1532 – May 1539), Bishop of León,(1539), Bishop of Sigüenza (October 1539 – August 1546), Archbishop of Seville (August 1546 – December 1566), President of the Royal Council of Castile, Inquisitor General/Grand Inquisitor (1547–1566).

  7. Baltasar de Mendoza y Sandoval - Wikipedia

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    In 1701, Philip V of Spain relieved him of the post of Grand Inquisitor, but because of a jurisdictional dispute between Madrid and the Holy See, and the absence of Philip V because of the War of the Spanish Succession, he continued to hold office until 1704. In 1706, he was charged with treason for siding with the Austrian faction during the war.

  8. Diego Rodríguez de Lucero - Wikipedia

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    The Inquisitor General, supported by the king, suppressed all protest. [7] [b] Rodríguez de Lucero celebrated an auto-da-fé in Córdoba in December 1504 that caused widespread fear. His testimony of the massacre said, "when he burned a hundred and seven men they were shouting to God and the Virgin to forgive them and saying that they never ...

  9. Antonio Herrezuelo - Wikipedia

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    Tribunes were built in a semicircle. On one stand sat the Inquisitor General and Archbishop of Seville, Fernando Valdés (held office 1546-1566), with the entire Inquisitorial College, four other bishops and the colleges of civil servants. 200,000 spectators crowded the square, the streets, the windows and the rooftops. Ministers ...