Talk:Spanish Inquisition

Henningsen-Contreras statistics

I've added the table with the data about the number of trials and executions according to the statistics of Gustav Henningsen and Jaime Contreras. Since the authors themeselves admit that their statistics is far from being complete, I've compared the numbers given by them with the numbers that appear from other available sorces for the respective tribunals. I've based primarily on William Monter, Frontiers of Heresy: The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily, Cambridge 2003. CarlosPn (discussion) 31 Oct 2008 22:15 CET

Council of Troubles

The Council of Troubles in the Netherlands was not connected to the Inquisition. It was a temporary war time committee set up in the Netherlands to root out and punish those who had led the rebellion against the king.

sailors in port

One reason why the Inquisition was hated by Renaissance Protestants, was that it claimed jurisdiction over sailors belonging to trading ships temporarily visiting Spanish ports (who had no intention of settling in Spain or proselytizing to Spaniards), which was not the normal practice in international trade at that time. AnonMoos (talk)

Origins

"Inquisition was stablished in 13th Century in the Kingdom of Aragón, under instructions from the bishop of Rome, to counteract the Albigense, Cathar heresy. In 1478 it was stablished in Castille, where it had no previous tradition, under lobbying by the Catholic kings, according to Ricardo García Cárcel (ISBN 9788420739632), in the aim of obtaining the Eclessial support for their intended 'Absolute power'. Inquisition being a Church tribunal, it acted only on those having received Baptism, and in cases of Witchcraft. In 1600, the Inquisiton told its tribunals to cease intervening in cases of 'Sodomy'. (Source in R García-Cárcel booklet, also in 'La tortura judicial en España', ISBN 9788484320296, by Francisco Tomás y Valiente). Torquemada, main inquisitor in 1492, belonging to the Preacher's order, stablished by Domingo de Guzmán (Osmán, Haussman, Guttmann), from the 'clan de los Guzmanes', landed in Teba, Malaga, this is a converse surname, came from a family of converses, the confessor of Isabel, Espina, was formerly a rabin.

Should there be a citation here?

In Activity of the Inquisition -> Start of the Inquisition it says the following:

"Fray Alonso de Ojeda, a Dominican friar from Seville, convinced Queen Isabella of the existence of Crypto-Judaism among Andalusian conversos during her stay in Seville between 1477 and 1478.[37] A report, produced by Pedro González de Mendoza, Archbishop of Seville, and by the Segovian Dominican Tomás de Torquemada – of converso family himself – corroborated this assertion."

The citation [37] here is a tip defining the term converso. I have been researching the Spanish Inquisition for the last week or so, reading segments of The Spanish Inquisition - A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen , and The Origins of the Inquisition by Benzion Netanyahu (specifically book 4, which focused on the Spanish Inquisition). I can see the shadows of the events mentioned above everywhere, but only very vague direct references to them. Does anybody know a source that the quote above could be referring to?

The closest thing I could find to the events described above was in An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain by Patricia W. Manning , chapter 5.1. But, the events described here happened some time after the Spanish Inquisition had been founded.

Update - I found this little entry in Britannica's Spanish Inquisition Timeline saying "November 1st, 1478. Pope Sixtus IV issues a papal bull authorizing Ferdinand and Isabella to name inquisitors to address the issue of Marranos, people who had converted from Judaism but practiced their faith in secret. Ferdinand and Isabella spread the Inquisition throughout their domains, allowing for persecution of conversos." I tried to add this citation to the suspicion of people practicing Judaism in secret, but that still leaves the connection to Fray Alonso de Ojeda. I'm new to editing Wikipedia ad I couldn't get the citation to show up. Is that because of the importance level of the article?

Roboticy3 (talk) 19:06, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

References

The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

H 2001:56A:72D4:7000:BC1C:8DA4:9080:F55F (talk) 05:15, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Classification as antisemetism

The Inquisition affected Moriscos (converted Muslim people) as well as the Jewish people, so why is this solely in a Wikipedia series on Antisemetism? Should it not also be part of the series on Islamophobia in that case? 2A02:C7F:228D:8800:B9E2:7672:BBB3:7C2 (talk) 01:05, 13 July 2022 (UTC)