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Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Castilian Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office (otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition). The Spanish Inquisition was a group of ecclesiastical prelates that was created in 1478, and which was charged with the somewhat ill-defined task of "upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy" within the lands of the newly formed union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon. The lands of this newly formed royal union are now known as the Kingdom of Spain. In part because of persecution, Muslims and Jews in Castile and Aragon at that time found it socially, politically, and economically advantageous to convert to Catholicism (see Converso, Morisco, and Marrano). The existence of superficial converts from Judaism (i.e., Crypto-Jews) was perceived by the Catholic Monarchs as a threat to the religious and social life in their realms. This led Torquemada, who himself was believed to have had converso ancestors, to be one of the chief supporters of the Alhambra Decree that expelled the Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1492. Owing to the use of torture to extract confessions, and his advocacy of burning at the stake for those declared guilty, Torquemada's name has become synonymous with cruelty, religious intolerance, and fanaticism. The number of burnings at the stake during Torquemada’s tenure has been estimated at about 2,000. Biography Early life Torquemada was born on 14 October 1420 either in Valladolid, in the Kingdom of Castile, or in the nearby village of Torquemada. The 15th century chronicler Hernando del Pulgar, a contemporary to de Torquemada and himself a converso, recorded that Tomás de Torquemada's uncle, Juan de Torquemada, a celebrated theologian and cardinal, was of converso descent. As a converso, Pulgar is considered to have made this assertion out of hate for Juan de Torquemada’s nephew, Tomás de Torquemada. However, a 2020 study of all of Juan de Torquemada’s ancestors found no Jewish converts in his family. Torquemada entered the local San Pablo Dominican monastery at a very young age. As a zealous advocate of church orthodoxy, he earned a solid reputation for learning, piety, and austerity. As a result, he was promoted to Prior of the monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia. Around this time, he met the young Princess Isabella I, and the two immediately established religious and ideological rapport. For a number of years, Torquemada served as her regular confessor and personal advisor. He was present at Isabella's coronation in 1474, remained her closest ally and supporter, and even advised her to marry King Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 to consolidate their kingdoms and form a power base he could draw on for his own purposes. Torquemada subdued Ferdinand's own ambitions and became his confessor also. Establishment of the Holy Office of the Inquisition Torquemada deeply suspected the Marrano and Morisco as a menace to Spain's welfare by both their increasing religious influence and their economic power in Spain. The Crown of Aragon had Dominican inquisitors almost continuously throughout much of the 14th and the 15th centuries. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella petitioned Pope Sixtus IV to grant their request for a Holy Office to administer an inquisition in Spain. The Pope granted their request and established the Holy Office for the Propagation of the Faith in late 1478. The papal bull gave the sovereigns full powers to name inquisitors. Rome retained the right to formally appoint the royal nominees. Henry Charles Lea observed that the Spanish Inquisition in both Castile and Aragon remained firmly under Ferdinand's direction throughout the joint reign. Grand Inquisitor The Pope went on to appoint a number of inquisitors for the Spanish Kingdoms in early 1482, including Torquemada. A year later he was named Grand Inquisitor of Spain, which he remained until his death in 1498. In 1484, Torquemada relinquished his role as royal confessor to Diego Deza, a Dominican who would eventually succeed him as Grand Inquisitor. The following year, at a general assembly in Seville, Torquemada promulgated the twenty-eight articles of faith that would be used to guide the inquisitors' investigations. In the fifteen years under his direction, the Spanish Inquisition grew from a single tribunal at Seville to a network of two dozen Holy Offices. As Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada reorganized the Spanish Inquisition (originally based in Castile in 1478), establishing tribunals in Sevilla, Jaén, Córdoba, Ciudad Real and (later) Saragossa. His quest was to rid Spain of heresy. The Spanish chronicler Sebastián de Olmedo called him "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the savior of his country, the honor of his order". Under the Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492, approximately 40,000 Jews were expelled from Spain with only their personal possessions. Approximately 50,000 other Jews received Christian baptism to remain in Spain. Many of them, derogatorily dubbed "Marranos" by the Old Christian majority, secretly kept some of their Jewish traditions. They were among the chief targets of the Inquisition, but it also pursued anyone who criticized it. So many clemency petitions were sent to Rome that the Pope became aware of Torquemada's severity, and he called the Inquisition's representatives to Rome three times. In addition, Isabella and Ferdinand were so concerned at the quantity of money that was being diverted to the Holy Office that they too protested to the Pope. But Torquemada's power kept him in his position until at least 1494. There are various estimates of the number of victims of the Spanish Inquisition during Torquemada's reign as Grand Inquisitor. Hernando del Pulgar, Queen Isabella's secretary, wrote that 2,000 executions took place throughout the entirety of her reign, which extended well beyond Torquemada's death. Death During his final years, Torquemada's failing health caused Pope Alexander VI to appoint four assistant inquisitors in June 1494 to assist Torquemada with the administration of the Inquisition. While officially, this papal appointment of assistants appeared to be due to Torquemada's 'failing health', many historians believe that the numerous complaints reaching the Pope about Torquemada's relentless zeal may have been the true cause for this papal appointment of 'assistant inquisitors'. With his faith in his mission undiminished, but stripped of any real power, Torquemada retired to the monastery of St. Thomas Aquinas in Ávila in 1494, typically leaving the monastery only to attend to the royal family, and once again living the simple life of a friar. In 1498, still holding the office of Grand Inquisitor, he held his last general assembly, where new rules were formulated to assure the continuation of the Inquisition in Spain. These rules attempted to curb some of the administrative abuses for wh.... Discover the Torquemada popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Torquemada books.
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniThis is an incredible history focusing on the role of Tomás de Torquemada in the Spanish inquisition. Torquemada was a Castilian Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in S...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniThe history of Frey Tómas de Torquemada is the history of the establishment of the Modern Inquisition. It is not so much the history of a man as of an abstract genius presiding ove...
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Torquemada en la hoguera
Benito Pérez GaldósRelata la historia de un usurero cuyo hijo enferma gravemente. El personaje de Torquemada protagonizó otras tres obras más del autor, que forman junto a 'Torquemada en la hoguera' ...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniThis book lends the history of Tomás de Torquemada, the Dominican Friar who later became the confessor to Queen Isabella and Grand Inquisitor in the Inquisition. His zeal in expell...
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Torquemada en el purgatorio
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Torquemada en la hoguera
Pérez GaldósVoy á contar cómo fue al quemadero el inhumano que tantas vidas infelices consumió en llamas; que á unos les traspasó los hígados con un hierro candente; á otros les puso en cazuel...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniThis book tells the history of Torquemada, the Dominican Friar who later became the confessor to Queen Isabella and Grand Inquisitor in the Inquisition, responsible for the cr...
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Torquemada en la hoguera
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Las novelas de Torquemada
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Torquemada en la cruz
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition A History
Rafael SabatiniTorquemada, the dour Dominican Friar, was responsible for one of the cruellest examples of religious persecution the world has ever known. Driven by his own warped genius, and agai...
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Torquemada
Victor Hugo & Arvensa éditionsNouvelle publication des éditions Arvensa : Torquemada de Victor Hugo, augmentée d’annexes biographiques. TORQUEMADA est un drame en quatre actes et en vers. L'histoire est in...
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Torquemada en la Cruz
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Torquemada y San Pedro
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Torquemada en la cruz
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TORQUEMADA EN EL PURGATORIO
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Torquemada en la cruz
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Torquemada
Victor HugoTorquemada, a drama about the Spanish inquisition, is one of the greatest masterpieces of the master poet of the 19th century. The construction of this tragedy is absolutely origin...
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Torquemada en la hoguera
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Torquemada en el Purgatorio
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Torquemada en el purgatorio
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniTorquemada and the Spanish Inquisition is a classic history of the Inquisition.
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Torquemada y San Pedro
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Torquemada Revisited
William Lowell PutnamThis book traces the origin of the forces and personalities that brought about the Spanish Inquisition and its impact on the larger world. It dwells extensively on the causes and p...
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Torquemada
Howard FastAn “eerily successful” novel of the fifteenthcentury Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition from the New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus (Kirkus Reviews). Be...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition A History
Rafael SabatiniTorquemada, the dour Dominican Friar, was responsible for one of the cruellest examples of religious persecution the world has ever known. Driven by his own warped genius, and agai...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniIn an endeavour to trace the Inquisition to its source it is not necessary to go as far back into antiquity as went Paramo; nor yet is it possible to agree with him that God Himsel...
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Torquemada en la hoguera
Benito Pérez Galdós"Torquemada en la hoguera" de Benito Pérez Galdós de la Editorial eartnow. eartnow publica una gran variedad de títulos que abarca todos los géneros. Van desde los títulos ...
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Torquemada en la cruz
Benito Pérez GaldósEntre múltiples escritos, mediante cuatro novelas publicadas entre 1889 y 1895, el escritor y novelista español Benito Pérez Galdós, pasó a la historia de España como un gran liter...
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Torquemada. El gran inquisidor
Iván VélezEn el 600 aniversario del nacimiento de fray Tomás de Torquemada no se prevé fasto conmemorativo alguno al respecto, pues la figura del dominico hace tiempo que concentra toda la c...
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Torquemada en el Purgatorio
Benito Pérez GaldósEntre 1889 y 1895 Galdós publicó las novelas 'Torquemada en la hoguera', 'Torquemada en la cruz', 'Torquemada en el Purgatorio' y 'Torquemada y San Pedro', todas ellas protagonizad...
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TORQUEMADA EN EL PURGATORIO
Benito Pérez GaldósEn 1894 Benito P¿rez Gald¿s escribe Torquemada en el purgatorio tercera novela de una serie de cuatro textos que comparten personajes y se desarrollan dentro del mismo marco hist¿r...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael Sabatini & Philip DossickIn his celebrated history, Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, Rafael Sabatini provides stunning detail about the Catholic Church's Inquisition (which started in the 12th Centu...
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My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism
Titania McGrath'Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtuesignalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it' Piers Morgan'Required reading for anyone needing an antido...
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Torquemada en el Purgatorio
Benito Pérez GaldósEntre 1889 y 1895 Galdós publicó las novelas 'Torquemada en la hoguera', 'Torquemada en la cruz', 'Torquemada en el Purgatorio' y 'Torquemada y San Pedro', todas ellas protagonizad...
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Torquemada en la hoguera
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Torquemada en la hoguera
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TORQUEMADA Y SAN PEDRO
Benito Pérez GaldósEsta es una reproducción de un libro publicado antes de 1923. Este libro puede tener imperfecciones ocasionales, como páginas faltantes o borrosas, imágenes de mala calidad, marcas...
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TORQUEMADA Y SAN PEDRO
Benito Pérez GaldósEsta es una reproducción de un libro publicado antes de 1923. Este libro puede tener imperfecciones ocasionales, como páginas faltantes o borrosas, imágenes de mala calidad, marcas...
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Los Personajes Fabulosos Del Jardin de Flores Curiosas de Antonio de Torquemada.
HispanofilaComo muestra Erich Auerbach en su analisis de Rabelais, la conquista de America provoca una autentica liberacion de la imaginacion (270). (1) En Espana, la expansion de las expecta...
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Torquemada en la hoguera
Benito Pérez GaldósVoy á contar cómo fue al quemadero el inhumano que tantas vidas infelices consumió en llamas; que á unos les traspasó los hígados con un hierro candente; á otros les puso en cazuel...
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Torquemada en el purgatorio
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Torquemada y San Pedro
Benito Pérez GaldósEl palacio de Gravelinas, en un recodo imaginado de la vieja calle de San Bernardo,11 y la sombra del misionero Gamborena (al que Torquemada llama "San Pedro") recorriendo la mansi...
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TORQUEMADA EN LA CRUZ
Benito Pérez Galdós"Benito Pérez Galdós (10 de mayo de 1843 4 de enero de 1920) fue un novelista realista español. Algunas autoridades lo consideran segundo después de Cervantes en estatura como...
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Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
Rafael SabatiniWith centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are w...