Toledo, Spain
Toledo ( , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of Toledo and the ''de jure'' seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. Toledo was declare ...
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Abd ar-Rahman II
Abd ar-Rahman II () (792–852) was the fourth ''Umayyad'' Emir of Córdoba in al-Andalus from 822 until his death. A vigorous and effective frontier warrior, he was also well known as a patron of the arts.
Abd ar-Rahman was born in Toledo, Spai ...
Alfonso Salmeron
Alfonso (Alphonsus) Salmerón (8 September 1515 – 13 February 1585) was a Spanish biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, and one of the first Jesuits.
Biography
He was born in Toledo, Spain on 8 September 1515. He studied literature and philoso ...
Alonso Andrada
Alonso Andrada (1590 – 20 June 1672) was a biographer and ascetic writer.
Andrada was born in Toledo, Spain. Before entering the Society of Jesus (1612) he read philosophy in Toledo, was afterwards rector of Plascensia and minister in forei ...
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Álvarez de Paz
Álvarez de Paz (1560 – 17 January 1620) was a Spanish Jesuit mystic of the Society of Jesus, born at Toledo.
He joined the Society in 1578, and taught theology and philosophy at Lima. Occasionally during his sermons, he fell into ecstas ...
Beatriz Villacañas
Beatriz Villacañas (born 1964 in Toledo, Spain) is a poet, essayist and literary critic.
Biography
Beatriz Villacañas was born in Toledo (Spain). She obtained her PhD in English Philology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she is pr ...
Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar López (22 November 1918 – 28 January 2014) was a Spanish far right politician. Having connections to Catholic organizations, during the Francoist dictatorship he directed the Institute of Hispanic Culture (''Instituto de Cultura ...
Diego de Covarubias y Leyva
Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva or Covarruvias (July 25, 1512 – September 27, 1577) was a Spanish jurist and Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop (Personal Title) of Cuenca (1577-1577), Archbishop (Personal Title) of Segovia (1564-157 ...
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Diego Duque de Estrada
Diego Duque de Estrada (August 15, 1589, in Toledo, Spain1647) was a Spanish memoir writer, soldier and adventurer.
He was the son of Juan Duque de Estrada, also a soldier of rank. He was orphaned at a very young age and educated by a cousin. He ...
Emilio Esteban Infantes
Emilio Esteban-Infantes Martín (18 May 1892 – 6 September 1962) was a Spanish officer who served during the Spanish Civil War, and later in World War II as commander of the Blue Division ( es, División Azul, german: Blaue Division), or the 2 ...
Fernando Niño de Guevara
Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541 – 8 January 1609) was a Spanish cardinal who was also Archbishop of Seville and Grand Inquisitor of Spain.
Biography
Fernando Niño de Guevara was born in Toledo, Spain in 1541, the son of Rodrigo Niño, Marqu ...
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Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (1514? – 1575) was a Spanish man of letters and rector of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, founded in 1551.
He was born and raised in Toledo, Spain. He first attended Alejo Venegas’s Grammar ...
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Francisco de Amberes
Francisco de Amberes, was a Spanish painter from Toledo, the cathedral of which he ornamented with his pictures in 1502. From 1508 to 1510 he painted, in conjunction with Juan de Borgoña and Juan de Villoldo, the arabesque
The arabesque is ...
Francisco de Vergara Francisco de Vergara (died 1545 in Toledo, Spain) was a Spanish Hellenist and humanist, brother of Juan de Vergara. He was chair of Greek at the Trilingual College of the University of Alcala. The brothers were of Jewish descent on their maternal s ...
Garcilaso de la Vega (poet)
Garcilaso de la Vega, KOS (c. 1501 – 14 October 1536) was a Spanish soldier and poet. Although not the first or the only one to do so, he was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes ...
Hernando de Ávila
Hernando de Ávila (c.1538-1595), painter and sculptor to Philip II of Spain, flourished in the middle of the 16th century. He was a pupil of Francisco Comontes. He executed, in 1568, an altar-piece of 'St. John the Baptist,' and the 'Adoration ...
Isaac Aboab of Castile
Isaac Aboab of Castile (1433 – January 1493), also known as Isaac Aboab II, was a Spanish-Jewish Rabbi, Posek and Torah commentator. Biography
Born at Toledo, the great great grandson of Isaac Aboab I. He was the pupil and successor of Isaac ...
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Isaac ibn Latif
Isaac ibn Latif (c. 1210-1280) was a Jewish philosopher, who lived most of his life in Toledo. In 1238 he published
his first work, a treatise named ''sha'ar ha-shama'yim'' ("heaven's gate"), a commentary on Koheles (Ecclesiastes).
Artscroll's ' ...
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Javier Lozano Cid
Javier Lozano Cid (born 28 October 1960) is a Spanish former futsal player and World Cup champion two times as a manager. He is currently the president of the LNFS.
Career
He has managed the Spain national futsal team
The Spain national futs ...
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Jerónima de la Asunción
Jerónima de la Asunción, O.S.C. ( es, Jerónima de la Asunción García Yánez y De La Fuente; May 9, 1555 – October 22, 1630) was a Spanish Catholic nun and abbess who founded the ''Real Monasterio de Santa Clara'' (Royal Monastery of Sain ...
Joey Kelly
Joseph Maria Kelly (born 20 December 1972) is a musician, songwriter, and athlete of Irish-American descent.
Kelly became known as a member of the Kelly Family, however, during the band's hiatus, he appeared primarily as an amateur athlete and ...
José Díaz Morales
José Díaz Morales (1908-1976) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.Bentley p.103 He emigrated to Mexico following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
Selected filmography
Director
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Adultery (from Latin ...
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Juan Antonio Villacañas
Juan Antonio Villacañas (born 1922 in Toledo, Spain, Toledo; died August 21, 2001) was a Spanish poet, essayist and critic. In 2015, he was named distinguished son ("hijo predilecto") of the city of Toledo, Spain, Toledo.
Biography
Born in Tole ...
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Joseph Karo
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro ( he, יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 Anno mundi, A.M.), was the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the ''Beit Yosef (book), Beit Yosef'', and it ...
Judah Halevi
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; he, יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi ; ar, يهوذا اللاوي ''Yahuḏa al-Lāwī''; 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, ...
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Juan López de Padilla
Juan López de Padilla (1490 – 24 April 1521) was an insurrectionary leader in the Castilian War of the Communities, where the people of Castile made a stand against policies of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his Flemish ministers. ...
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Julian of Toledo
Julian of Toledo (642–690) was born in Toledo, Hispania. He was well educated at the cathedral school, was a monk and later abbot at Agali, a spiritual student of Saint Eugene II, and archbishop of Toledo. He was the first bishop to have prim ...
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Luís Enrique Peñalver
Luís Enrique Peñalver Pereira (; born 10 February 1996) is a Spanish badminton player. The Toledo-born, represented Spain competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He was a part of the Spanish national junior team that won t ...
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Luis Quiñones de Benavente
Luis Quiñones de Benavente or Luis de Benavente y Quiñones (1581 in Toledo – 1651 in Madrid) was a famous Spanish entremesista of the Siglo de Oro
The Spanish Golden Age ( es, Siglo de Oro, links=no , "Golden Century") is a period of flo ...
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Luis Tristán
Luis Tristán de Escamilla, also known as Luis de Escamilla or Luis Rodríguez Tristán (c.1585, Toledo, Spain, Toledo - 1624, Toledo), was a Spanish painter in the mannerist style.
Life and work
He was born into a family of merchants and artisa ...
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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (c. 1480 – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlement in what is now the United State ...
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Mark of Toledo Mark of Toledo ( fl. 1193-1216) was a Spanish physician and a canon of Toledo. Biography
He produced one of the earliest translations of the Qur'an into Latin while working at the Toledo School of Translators. He also translated Hippocrates' ''De a ...
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Nicolás de Vergara el Mozo
Nicolás de Vergara el Mozo (1540 - 11 December 1606) was a Spanish sculptor, architect, blacksmith and glassmaker. He worked in the Toledo Cathedral, where he was master of works, and in other religious and civil buildings. He was the son of the ...
Pedro de Ribadeneira
Pedro de Ribadeneira S.J. ( Toledo, 1 November 1527 – Madrid, 10 September or 22 September 1611) was a Spanish hagiographer, Jesuit priest, companion of Ignatius of Loyola, and a Spanish Golden Age ascetic writer.
Life
Pedro was born at T ...
Pedro Machuca
Pedro Machuca (c. 1490 in Toledo, Spain – 1550 in Granada) is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V (begun 1528) adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada. The significance of this work is tha ...
Petrus Petri
Petrus Petri (also Pedro Pérez) ( 1220 – 1291) was a thirteenth-century Spanish master architect. For centuries it was held with complete certainty that he was the first master architect of the Cathedral of Toledo, based on the only existing te ...
Ricardo Arredondo Calmache
Ricardo Arredondo Calmache (23 October 1850 – 1911) was a Spanish painter who specialized in landscapes and costumbrista scenes; known for his meticulous attention to detail.
Biography
He was born in Cella. His father was a veteran of t ...
Sancho III of Castile
Sancho III (c. 1134 – 31 August 1158), called the Desired (''el Deseado''), was King of Castile and Toledo for one year, from 1157 to 1158. He was the son of Alfonso VII of León and Castile and his wife Berengaria of Barcelona, and was suc ...
Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia (1247 – after 1300) was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew. He also wrote poems in Arabic.
Abulafia collected his poems in diwan, which he called ''Gan HaMeshalim veHaHidot'' (''The Garden of Parables a ...
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Tomás Barros Pardo Tomás Barros Pardo (Toledo, 1922 – La Coruña, 1986) was a Spanish painter and author.
Painter, poet, composer, author of plays, essays and one novel, occasional reporter, PhD in Fine Arts, and member of the Royal Galician Academy, Tomás Barros ...
People who lived at Toledo
This is a list of notable people who had their main residence in Toledo during most of their life.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, french: Charles Quint, it, Carlo V, nl, Karel V, ca, Carles V, la, Carolus V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (Crown of Castile, Castil ...
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El Greco
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...
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Judah ben Asher
Judah ben Asher (30 June 1270 – 4 July 1349) was a German Talmudist and later rabbi of Toledo, Spain, son of Rabbenu Asher and brother of Jacob ben Asher ("Ba'al haTurim").
Biography
At the age of thirteen, according to the custom of the Germa ...
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Raymond de Sauvetât
Francis Raymond de Sauvetât, or Raymond of Toledo, was the Archbishop of Toledo from 1125 to 1152. He was a French Benedictine monk, born in Gascony.
His most important work was the creation of a working group of translators that would later be ...
Eleanor of Toledo
Eleanor of Toledo (Italian: ''Eleonora di Toledo'', 11 January 1522 – 17 December 1562), born Doña Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, was a Spanish noblewoman and Duchess of Florence as the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. A keen businessw ...
Spain
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