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Born 1420 • Valladolid • Spain
Died September 16, 1498 (aged 78) • Ávila • Spain
Role In Spanish Inquisition

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Painting of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I of Spain seated on a throne as a group kneels before them, with a prelate holding a cross in warning during the expulsion of Jews in 1492.
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Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Spanish cardinal
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John III
king of Portugal
Painting by Jakob Seisenegger showing Emperor Charles V in ornate Renaissance attire standing beside a large hunting dog, with a green curtain in the background.
Charles V
Holy Roman emperor
Pius V
St. Pius V
pope
Painting by Francisco de Goya of King Ferdinand VII wearing a red and white fur-trimmed royal mantle, holding a scepter, with a neutral dark background.
Ferdinand VII
king of Spain
Giovanni di Balduccio: Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors
St. Peter Martyr
Italian preacher
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Francisco Pacheco
Spanish painter
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Nicholas Eymeric
Spanish theologian
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Spanish historian and missionary
St. Dominic
St. Dominic
Spanish priest
Vitoria, Francisco de
Francisco de Vitoria
Spanish theologian
St. Raymond of Peñafort
St. Raymond of Peñafort
Spanish friar
Bartolome de Carranza, engraving
Bartolomé de Carranza
Spanish theologian
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Melchor Cano
Spanish theologian
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Bartolomé de Medina
Spanish theologian
Gilt and polychrome relief by Alonso de Mena showing Ferdinand II on the left and Isabella on the right, both with hands raised in prayer, framed by ornate gold trim.
Ferdinand II
king of Spain
Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Bronze medallion showing a left-facing portrait of Pope Sixtus IV in papal regalia, with Latin inscription around the edge.
Sixtus IV
pope
Paul IV
Paul IV
pope
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Konrad von Marburg
German inquisitor