Antonio Tavira y Almazán, (

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, province of Jaen, 30 September 1737 -

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, January 1807). A member of the

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from 1775 to 1807. Famous archeologist who found visigothic remains, near Cabezo del Griego, described since then as

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. He had some clashes with the Spanish Inquisition, related to the regalist wishes of King

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to give to the bishop's jurisdiction on the annulment of marriages, he was also the Honorary Chaplain of King

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since 1772, aged 36. A Knight and a Prior of the Military

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, (1788–1789), Bishop of Canarias, (1791–1796),

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, (1796–1798),

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, suspicious of the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the 18th century whom he suspected of incompetence and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire,

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, ( Vého, (Trois-Évêchés), near

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, France, 4 December 1750 - Paris, 20 May 1831). He was ordained a bishop of Salamanca, (perhaps), Catholic Bishop of Maximionopolis,

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, by the Scottish Priest Alexander Cameron, (

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, 28 July 1747 - Bishop of Maximionopolis,

by Tavira 28 October 1798- Vicar Apostolic of Lowland District, around

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, Great Britain, 24 August 1805 - 20 August 1825 Retired - died 7 February 1828, aged 80).

References

El Museo Virtual de Segobriga (Virtual Museum of Segobriga, first researches by Antonio Tavira, 1788–1789): * https://web.archive.org/web/20080914065804/http://www.segobrigavirtual.es/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavira Y Almazan, Antonio 1737 births 1807 deaths 18th-century Spanish archaeologists Bishops of Osma Bishops of Salamanca Members of the Royal Spanish Academy University of Salamanca alumni Academic staff of the University of Salamanca