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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 ...
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.
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 2000 AD; Torquemada, a member of the Green Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe
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).
Torquemada is a municipality in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census , the municipality had a population of 1098 inhabitants. It is the namesake and believed to be the birthplace of famed Grand Inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada. The village is known for its peppers, an important crop for the local economy.
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 Virgin Mary (center), with St Thomas Aquinas symbolically holding the Catholic Church and St Domingo de Guzmán, the Spanish founder of the Dominican Order, with a book and a palm frond. Ferdinand is with the prince of Asturias and the inquisitor; Isabella with their daughter, Isabel de Aragón.
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.