Salas, Asturias
Salas (also known as San Martin de Salas)
is a town and ''concejo'' (municipality) in the Principality of Asturias. It lies on the road from San Sebastián to Santiago de Compostela, and on a small subtributary of the river Narcea. It is bor ...
, 1483 –
Madrid
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, 1568) was a Spanish churchman and jurist, professor of canon law at the
University of Salamanca
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, and later its chancellor.
Biography
He was member of the Supreme Council of the
Spanish Inquisition
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Bishop of Oviedo
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Archbishop of Seville
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(August 1546 – December 1566), President of the Royal Council of Castile, Inquisitor General/
Grand Inquisitor
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(1547–1566). He published an "Index of Forbidden books" in 1559, including a number of influential Catholic authors such as
Erasmus of Rotterdam
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,
Louis of Granada
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People
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* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
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* ...
, Francisco de Osuna, and Francisco de Borja.
He tried to clean out heterodox people, associated to Jewish and Muslim "conversos" and Erasmist and Lutheran circles, from the high nobility and the high ecclesiastical positions around
Valladolid
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and
Sevilla
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, even prosecuting the
Archbishop of Toledo
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Bartolomé Carranza
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.
References
Bibliography
*J. R. ALONSO PEREIRA, ''"Historia General de la Arquitectura en Asturias"''. Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Asturias. Gran Enciclopedia Asturiana, (1996).(Gijón), Edit. Silverio Cañada, , 366 pages, (In Spanish)