Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal and theologian (born 1388)

Juan de Torquemada (cardinal)

Spanish ecclesiastic (1388–1468)

Juan de Torquemada O.P., Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth century. He was an uncle of Tomás de Torquemada, afterwards well-known as the Grand Inquisitor.