Spanish InquistionEssay Preview: Spanish InquistionReport this essayThe Spanish Inquisition:The Spanish Inquisition is notorious for three main reasons:It was crueler mainly because it was administered by the secular government.It was largely concerned with the converses (people suspected of practicing mainly the Jewish or Muslim faith in secret).It has been the major aim of Protestant and secular opponents of Catholicism who have fabricated Ð- through pamphlets, “histories”, plays and paintings Ð- cruelties and excesses far beyond what actually happened.
How it Started and its Purpose:In 1480, the Turks attacked the city of Otranto in southern Italy. 12 000 people were killed and the rest were made slaves. Every cleric in the city was killed by the Turks and the archbishop of sawed in half. In response, Queen Isabella sent a fleet to Italy. It was in September of 1480 that King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella realized that the Turks might try to do the same to any coastal city and as a result the Spanish Inquisition was established. It dealt with the problem of those who were suspected of pretending to have converted from Judaism or Islam to Christianity and might open the gates of the city to the Turks (Conversos). It was because of this threat that Pope Sixtus IV authorized the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 in the case that it was needed. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand V established it two years later.
2) In December of 1482, Francisco Isabella was in the city of St. Nazaire. His men took St. Lucia and were planning to attack Rome. Pope Sixtus IV ordered the Inquisition to be launched and to begin executing any known followers of Islam. The pope’s wife, Queen Victoria, the widow of Pope Clement of Alexandria, was among those arrested. These included her nephew, Bishop Ferdinand, nephew of the same bishop. Queen Victoria, with her daughter, Mary, was also executed by the people. Emperor Ferdinand was executed a month after they first arrived in Rome and her name was removed from the list of names. However, the Pope’s name was not given up and he had to be executed by the other pope. And so the Pope was executed in December of 1482. Now the only known leader of the Templars in Rome was the infamous bishop of Paris, Charles Isabella, who had been convicted of heresy. Isabella was a very important figure in the Templars. During his 15 years of exile, many of the Templars were accused of plotting or even conspiring against the Papacy and some of them even ran away (as a result of the Inquisition). Isabella was a great ally to President Ferdinand V, who was very friendly toward the Vatican, which provided refuge from the Templars in many ways. Isabella also had very important advisers in the Vatican, Bishop Paulinus, Pope Gregory XII, and Cardinal Innocent II. Pope Gregory XII would later become king, becoming the first cardinal to do so. At his baptism in August of 1482, Pope Gregory XII delivered Pope Isabella’s baptismal message. The pope then took Isabella on a mission to Syria, which was part of the campaign of the Templars against the Templars in 1539-40. It was this mission where an army of the Templars fought the Turks, who had been attacking Catholics and Christians, and the Catholics fled to Constantinople, where they were eventually captured and executed. However, the Templars were able to escape back to the Roman Catholic territories. Pope Clement of Alexandria was also freed and Isabella was given some of his lands in the provinces of Salo, Assisi, and Epirus. He was also a member and commander of the Inquisition. The people of the Templars had been targeted during the Napoleonic Era by the Ottomans. They had fled for their lives to find refuge or else they would have been defeated. Isabella was an important figure in this affair. She married Prince James II in 1541 despite of her own oath to obey the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, she had been to France as a bride and in 1548, she met Napoleon at Paris, where the two spoke of him as a “priest.” In 1587, Pope Innocent had an alliance with him and in 1591-2 Pope Innocent II was killed by the French army. Isabella left in July of 1592 when it was reported that Pope Peter of Patmos (who had been killed by the Templars in 1533 when he was being executed by the Emperor) had agreed to take up arms with the Pope after his death to “prevent these Templars from making war with their allies”. Does this sound to you like their treaty would have been respected and allowed? Well, that’s probably the only way they could have won the war that
2) In December of 1482, Francisco Isabella was in the city of St. Nazaire. His men took St. Lucia and were planning to attack Rome. Pope Sixtus IV ordered the Inquisition to be launched and to begin executing any known followers of Islam. The pope’s wife, Queen Victoria, the widow of Pope Clement of Alexandria, was among those arrested. These included her nephew, Bishop Ferdinand, nephew of the same bishop. Queen Victoria, with her daughter, Mary, was also executed by the people. Emperor Ferdinand was executed a month after they first arrived in Rome and her name was removed from the list of names. However, the Pope’s name was not given up and he had to be executed by the other pope. And so the Pope was executed in December of 1482. Now the only known leader of the Templars in Rome was the infamous bishop of Paris, Charles Isabella, who had been convicted of heresy. Isabella was a very important figure in the Templars. During his 15 years of exile, many of the Templars were accused of plotting or even conspiring against the Papacy and some of them even ran away (as a result of the Inquisition). Isabella was a great ally to President Ferdinand V, who was very friendly toward the Vatican, which provided refuge from the Templars in many ways. Isabella also had very important advisers in the Vatican, Bishop Paulinus, Pope Gregory XII, and Cardinal Innocent II. Pope Gregory XII would later become king, becoming the first cardinal to do so. At his baptism in August of 1482, Pope Gregory XII delivered Pope Isabella’s baptismal message. The pope then took Isabella on a mission to Syria, which was part of the campaign of the Templars against the Templars in 1539-40. It was this mission where an army of the Templars fought the Turks, who had been attacking Catholics and Christians, and the Catholics fled to Constantinople, where they were eventually captured and executed. However, the Templars were able to escape back to the Roman Catholic territories. Pope Clement of Alexandria was also freed and Isabella was given some of his lands in the provinces of Salo, Assisi, and Epirus. He was also a member and commander of the Inquisition. The people of the Templars had been targeted during the Napoleonic Era by the Ottomans. They had fled for their lives to find refuge or else they would have been defeated. Isabella was an important figure in this affair. She married Prince James II in 1541 despite of her own oath to obey the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, she had been to France as a bride and in 1548, she met Napoleon at Paris, where the two spoke of him as a “priest.” In 1587, Pope Innocent had an alliance with him and in 1591-2 Pope Innocent II was killed by the French army. Isabella left in July of 1592 when it was reported that Pope Peter of Patmos (who had been killed by the Templars in 1533 when he was being executed by the Emperor) had agreed to take up arms with the Pope after his death to “prevent these Templars from making war with their allies”. Does this sound to you like their treaty would have been respected and allowed? Well, that’s probably the only way they could have won the war that
The Inquisition didnt have any authority over practicing Muslims and Jews, only over professed Christians suspected of pretending of being Christian and a threat to the country. It remained functional in Spain into the nineteenth century. Although called originally into working against people practicing the religions of Islam and Judaism in secret,