Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish friar (born 1420)

Tomás de Torquemada

Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420–1498)

Tomás de Torquemada, also anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Roman Catholic Dominican friar and first Castillian Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office, which was a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 and charged with the somewhat ill-defined…