Diego Sarmiento de Valladares (1615 – 29 January 1695) was a

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who was

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from 1669 to 1695.

Biography

Diego Sarmiento de Valladares was born in

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in 1615, the son of Luis Sarmiento, señor de Valladares and Inés de Arines Romay, señora de Camos. He was closely related to Jose Sarmiento de Valladares y Arines Romay, 1st Duke of Atrisco and

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. Valladares was

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as a

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on 4 October 1667. He was appointed

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on 30 January 1668. He was

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on 17 September 1668, becoming

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also named him president of the

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at this time, and he held that post until 1669. In 1669, he became

. He resigned his bishopric on 26 April 1677 but remained Grand Inquisitor until his death. In this capacity, he oversaw one of the

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s'' of the seventeenth century, held in the

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in 1680. Valladares died in

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on 29 January 1695.

References

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