Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela (

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, Ávila, 13 January 1512 – 20 November 1594) was a prominent Catholic official who rose to become General Inquisitor of Spain, from 1573 to 1594, and

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from 1577 to 1594. He was named a Cardinal by Pope

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in 1578. He was the nephew of the 1st Bishop of Michoacán,

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Vasco de Quiroga Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78 – 14 March 1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico, and one of the judges (''oidores'') in the second Real Audiencia of Mexico – the high court that governed New Spain – from January 10, 1531, to April 16, ...

, (1470 - 1565).

Biography

He was educated as a Doctor in Theology and Law at the

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. He was sent by King

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as an envoy to

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and to the Spanish-administered territories in the Italian peninsula. He served as a member of the Spanish High Council of Justice since 1563 and as

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, (1561–1577), being then promoted to

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, to replace former Imperial diplomat

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from the

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Bartolomé de Carranza (

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, 1503 –

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, 2 May 1576) in prison in

for some further 9 years, while defended there in front of Pope

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, deceased May 1572, by

Martín de Azpilcueta y Jaureguizar ( Barásoain,

, 13 December 1492 -

, 21 June 1586) to take him out of the clutches of

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, (1483 - 1567), who had detained him previously for the period August 1559 - April 1567, some 8 years. He was a patron in Toledo of the Greek-Spanish painter

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, usually known as El Greco, (1541 - resident in Toledo,

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, since 1577 - Toledo,

, 1614). It is claimed that Quiroga portrait is found in the face of Saint Augustine in the famous Greco painting ''

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''. Quiroga liberated from the Inquisition's prisons the mystical poet Fray

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, (1527 - 1591) who had been imprisoned for over 4 years at

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, from March 1572 until December 1576, for publishing, amongst other things, a Spanish translation of the '' Song of Solomon'', both of his parents having Jewish ancestry albeit being himself an

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monk expert in Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Around 1584, Quiroga built at the other side of the River Tagus, in the area known as the "Cigarrales", a summer house now occupied by a hotel.

Episcopal succession

References

External links

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*PIZARRO LLORENTE, Henar. ''"Un gran patrón en la corte de Felipe II : Don Gaspar de Quiroga"''.Pizarro Llorente, Henar. Publ. Madrid : Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, (2004), 620 pages ; 24 cm., Bibliography and Index,
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quiroga, Gaspar De 1512 births 1595 deaths People from the Province of Ávila 16th-century Spanish cardinals Bishops of Cuenca Grand Inquisitors of Spain Archbishops of Toledo University of Salamanca alumni

Biography

Episcopal succession

See also

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