Torquemada (crossword Compiler)
Torquemada may refer to: People * Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer * Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition * Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer * Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World * Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter Fiction * Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series ''Oz'' * Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the ''Monkey Island series, Monkey Island'' series * ''Las novelas de Torquemada'', four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós: **''Torquemada en la hoguera'' (1889) **''Torquemada en la Cruz'' (1893) **''Torquemada en el purgatorio'' (1894) **''Torquemada y San Pedro'' (1895) * Torquemada (play), ''Torquemada'' (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás ...
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Juan De Torquemada (cardinal)
Juan de Torquemada, O.P. (1388 – 26 September 1468), (church Latin Johannes de Turre cremata, various spellings), Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth century. He was an uncle of Tomás de Torquemada, afterwards notorious as the persecuting Grand Inquisitor. Life Juan de Torquemada was born in Valladolid, Spain. “There is a general historical consensus that the family were former Jews“. Though those converso origins are very often stated without providing any source, they are “based primarily on Hernando del Pulgar’s statement that Juan de Torquemada’s ''abuelos'' were converts from the Jewish faith“. As a ''converso'', Pulgar is considered to have made this assertion out of hate for Juan de Torquemada’s nephew, Tomás de Torquemada. However, through a study of all Juan de Torquemada’s ancestors no such jewish converts were found in his family. At an early age he joined th ...
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