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	Torquemada
		Torquemada had always been strong in his advice that she should marry Ferdinand of Aragon and thus consolidate the kingdoms of Spain.
		Torquemada went with the sovereigns to Cordova, to Madrid or wherever the states-general were held, to urge on the war; and he obtained from the Holy See the same spiritual favors that had been enjoyed by the Crusaders.
		For a long time Torquemada had tried to get the royal consent to a general expulsion; but the sovereigns hesitated, and, as the victims were the backbone of the commerce of the country, proposed a ransom of 300,000 ducats instead.
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	Tomas de Torquemada Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Tomas de Torquemada (1420-1498) served as the Grand Inquisitor in Spain's zealous movement to restore Christianity among its populace in the late fifteenth century.
		Torquemada was born in 1420 in Valladolid, Spain.
		Torquemada became head of one of the tribunals, having met the stipulations of the post: the inquisitors had to be at least forty years old, possess a flawless reputation, and be well-versed in theology or canonical law.
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	Tomas de Torquemada
		Eventually they were married, and despite Tomas' little quirks, Candida stood by her husband (her resolve perhaps strengthened by the mysterious deaths of his previous wives after little quarrels), and produced the heirs to the throne, Pandora and Barbarossa.
		Tomas and his elder brother, Nostradamus, had travelled forward through time to the end of the world, only to discover that the human race of that era had chosen regression and returned to the sea that spawned them.
		As for Torquemada's beloved Candida, she continued to languish in her asylum cell for many years, with only the TV and the insane ramblings of 'Grandfather' Nostradamus for company, until one day she was visited by a travelling musician who played for her the music of the spheres, and brought her back to sanity.
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	Tomás de Torquemada
		Born on a date uncertain in 1420 in what is now Valladolid, Torquemada was a Dominican monk —; one of the famed "hounds of the Lord" (domini canes) — in the monastery at Valladolid, and later became prior of the Monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia, serving for 22 years.
		His favorite methods for extracting confessions, nevermind the truth, were to hang the accused by the arms so that the arms were pulled from their joints, to force the swallowing of gallons of water, and to have the joints dislocated on the rack.
		The contemporary Spanish chronicler, Sebastian de Olmedo called Torquemada "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honour of his order." Confident that he had served Christ and his Church, Torquemada** died on this date at age 78, but the Inquisition carried on.
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	Tomás de Torquemada
		As papal representative and the highest official of the inquisitorial court, Torquemada directed the entire business of the Inquisition in Spain, was empowered to delegate his inquisitorial faculties to other Inquisitors of his own choosing, who remained accountable to him, and settled the appeals made to the Holy See.
		Even the Jewish historian Graetz contents himself with stating that "under the first Inquisitor Torquemada, in the course of fourteen years (1485-1498) at least 2000 Jews were burnt as impenitent sinners" ("History of the Jews", Philadelphia, 1897, IV, 356).
		Whether Torquemada's ways of ferreting out and punishing heretics were justifiable is a matter that has to be decided not only by comparison with the penal standard of the fifteenth century, but also, and chiefly, by an inquiry into their necessity for the preservation of Christian Spain.
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	Torquemada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The nephew of a noted Dominican cardinal and theologian, Juan de Torquemada, the young Torquemada joined the Dominicans and in 1452 became prior of the monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia, an office that he held for 22 years.
		Torquemada's implacable hostility to the Jews probably exercised an influence on the decision of Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from their dominions all Jews who had not embraced Christianity.
		In his private life Torquemada seems to have been pious and austere, but his official career as inquisitor was marked by a harsh intransigence, which nevertheless was generally supported by public opinion, at least in the early years.
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	Torquemada, Tomás De Biography \| eorl_13_package.xml
		Tomás de Torquemada, nephew of Juan de Torquemada (1388–1468), the celebrated Dominican theologian, canonist, and cardinal, was born at Valladolid and as a youth entered the Order of Preachers.
		Torquemada, though himself descended from Jewish forebears, was particularly harsh in carrying out the mandate of the Inquisition against crypto-Jews (Marranos), Jews who continued to practice Judaism in secret after their forced conversion to Christianity.
		Papal efforts to moderate the inquisitorial zeal in Spain were usually ineffectual, because the Spanish Inquisition, as Torquemada fashioned it, was an instrument to secure the racial and religious uniformity that was a primary concern of the Catholic kings and of Spanish policy for a long time afterward.
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	Torquemada, the Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews
		Luis de Santangel, treasurer to Fernando the Catholic, was a principal financier of Columbus's voyage.
		Tomás de Torquemada was born in Valladolid in 1420.
		Torquemada was not in the forefront of the group of Dominicans who forced the issue of creating an Inquisition in the "wedge city" of Seville, but he definitely took an interest in the matter, from his Segovia priory.
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	The Perez Galdos Editions Project - Summary of the Torquemada novels
		Torquemada's actions are rudely questioned by the old maid-servant Tía Roma, who has served the household for years, having previously worked for Torquemada's deceased wife, Doña Silvia, and who dotes on his two children, Rufina and Valentín.
		As Torquemada's social position improves he becomes increasingly conscious of his speech habits and, striving to achieve a more elegant form of self-expression, he begins to imitate the turns of phrase of other members of aristocratic society, particularly José Donoso, the loyal friend of the Aguila family.
		Torquemada dies uttering the words 'Conversión' but it is left to the reader to decide whether he was indeed repenting of his sins or whether he was still thinking about his project for the conversion of the national debt.
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	Leonardo Balada - Torquemada and other works
		Tomas of Torquemada; who burns, who kills; fire to the fire of your justice.
		TORQUEMADA: they shall not be sentenced to death nor to life imprisonment and nor shall their goods be taken but shall lie given lighter sentences.
		Merciful is the word of Christ and the forgiveness that his voice brings, but you, with pride you would draw justice from torment, impose your Faith with punishment and you break the laws of Christianity, scaling the destiny of these lands with prejudice of race and hate and envy between father and on.
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	Torquemada
		Tomás de Torquemada was the leader and one of the creators of the Spanish Inquisition during its early years.
		Torquemadas own grandmother was a converso and he had Jewish people in his family four generations back.
		Torquemada used the LaGuardia trial and argued that Jews were a danger to Spain.
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	Leonardo Balada - Torquemada and other works
		Tomas of Torquemada; who burns, who kills; fire to the fire of your justice.
		TORQUEMADA: they shall not be sentenced to death nor to life imprisonment and nor shall their goods be taken but shall lie given lighter sentences.
		Merciful is the word of Christ and the forgiveness that his voice brings, but you, with pride you would draw justice from torment, impose your Faith with punishment and you break the laws of Christianity, scaling the destiny of these lands with prejudice of race and hate and envy between father and on.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/balada/Torquemada.htm (458 words)

	The Unofficial Torquemada Biography
		Torquemada was a sorcerer, recruited for the Green Lantern Corps by Brik and Percival.
		Torquemada later gazed into his crystal to learn the history of the mystical Starheart, the damnation of Yalan Gur, and the origin of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern.
		Torquemada managed to save Alan Scott's family by capturing a portion of the magic, sealing it in a mystic globe.
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	The Age of Torquemada by John Edward Longhurst, Chapter 7
		I sometimes feel that the modern friends of Torquemada-or of a John Calvin for that matter-use the fetish of objectivity as a shield to ward off criticism of the wayward actions of past party members.
		As for Torquemada, the man himself was no worse and no better than the mass of his contemporaries, and I do not share the view of those critics who single him out as an aberration from the mythical norm of human goodness and virtue.
		Torquemada quickly put an end to this chicanery by an order in 1484 that such persons were to be considered as false converts and to be prosecuted as such, the penalty for false conversion being death at the stake.
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	BBC - h2g2 - The Spanish Inquisition
		Tomas firmly believed that he was one of the most privileged and pure men and lived his life this way.
		Torquemada had foreseen this and warned his inquisitors to ignore the pitiful attempts of the accused sole.
		Tomas would go into a long and involved speech explaining why he had to take such repressive measures to defend God and how those awaiting execution were making his job very difficult.
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	Torquemada
		Torquemada's own grandmother was a converso, but he continued to elevate the level of his Inquisition to that of an ethnic cleansing or a full-blown massacre.
		To Torquemada's credit, a large percentage of his victims were very wealthy.
		Torquemada lived a long life surrounded by comfort before dying of natural causes at the age of 78.
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	Christopher Columbus, was he a Jew? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The historian Salvador de Madariaga believed that Columbus was from a Catalan family who fled to Genoa to escape persecution for being Jewish.
		Columbus in his will bequeathed "one-half mark of silver" to "a Jew who lived at the entrance to the Jewish Quarter in Lisbon," a deathbed affirmation, perhaps, of ties to the Jewish community that were never evident in Columbus's life.Or merely recognising an old friend.
		Tomas de Torquemada was appointed inquisitor-general of the Inquisition in 1483.
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	The world's top tomas de torquemada websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Tomás de Torquemada was a fifteenth century Spanish Dominican, and an Inquisitor General.
		Torquemada's name, as part of the Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition, has become a byword for cruelty and fanaticism in the service of religion.
		He was born in 1420 in the village of Torquemada (Latin turris cremata, "burnt tower") near the northern Spanish city of Valladolid, and may have had Jewish ancestry: the contemporary historian Hernando del Pulgar, writing of Torquemada's uncle Juan de Torquemada, said that his ancestor Alvar Fernández de Torquemada had married a first-generation Jewish convert.
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	Tomás de Torquemada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tomás de Torquemada (1420 - September 16, 1498) was a fifteenth century Spanish Dominican, and an Inquisitor General.
		In the science fiction comic strip Nemesis the Warlock the Earth is ruled by the dictator Torquemada, a descendant of the inquisitor.
		The October 24, 2005 episode of The Colbert Report jokingly recommended that Torquemada be brought back from the dead to both extract the truth about the Valerie Plame affair, and to force an also-resurrected Charles Darwin to recant his Theory of Evolution.
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	Tomas De Torqemade. (Page 1)
		The communicant was Tomas de Torquemada, a former Roman Catholic cardinal.
		Torquemada was born in Valladoled and when he was old enough to go into the church he entered the Dominican Order and later became Prior of the Dominican House of Santa Cruz.
		In 1483 Torquemada was appointed Inquisitor General, or Grand Inquisitor, an office in which he displayed pitiless cruelty and fanaticism, and which he retained until his death in 1498.
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	Torquemada Sequel. (Page 1)
		Recently we read the story of a very unhappy soul, Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, a soul who had been a so-called “servant of God”, yet was ruthless, power-crazy, arrogant and wealthy.
		Torquemada told us that when he left this world, he found himself in utter darkness, bereft of everything - no friends, no clothes to wear - and in utter and complete darkness.
		When Torquemada was on this Plane, he was a very powerful man, and he sowed for himself a terrible harvest that he has now been reaping for over 500 years.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Torquemada,
		As such he was responsible for directing its early activities against Jews and Muslims in Spain, and in fashioning its methods, including the use...
		, 1388-1468, Spanish churchman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church; an uncle of Tomás de Torquemada.
		A Dominican, he became confessor to Ferdinand II and Isabella I and in 1483 was appointed inquisitor general of Castile and Aragón, charged with the centralization of the Spanish Inquisition.
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	Inquisitor - Torquemada
		Le parcours de ce casuiste et théologien fut très rapide.
		Aux côtés de l'inquisiteur, l'ordinaire diocésain, l'avocat du fiscal.
		Ses dernières instructions sont de 1498, en cette année il réussit a avoir le dessus sur l'évêque d'Amanda, le tribunal le condamna a perdre ses dignités, bénéfices et son château, lieu où il mourut de désespoir.
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		Tomás de Torquemada nació en Valladolid, en el seno de una familia descendiente de judíos que habían adoptado la fe cristiana.
		Por mediación de Isabel y su esposo Fernando II de Aragón, el papa Sixto IV lo nombró primer inquisidor general de Castilla y Aragón en 1483, a pesar de la resistencia de muchos aragoneses que resentían estar bajo una misma autoridad con Castilla.
		Sin embargo Torquemada utilizaba estos medios para perseguir a quienes provenían de familias de otras religiones, e incluso promulgó leyes sobre la "pureza de sangre", para poder acusar y perseguir no solo a judíos y musulmanes sino también a los conversos y sus familias.
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