torquemada in A Sentence

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    Juan de Torquemada.

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    Tomas de Torquemada.

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    Tomas de Torquemada died on September 16, 1498, at the age of 78.

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    Of course, all of this made Torquemada a pretty unpopular guy, even sometimes with the Pope.

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    Thus, the King and Queen decided to appoint the zealous Tomas de Torquemada to organize handling the problem.

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    The distrust of the conversos led to a mass expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492(at the insistence of Torquemada.).

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    Born in 1420, Tomas de Torquemada was the nephew of an influential cardinal, Juan de Torquemada, which certainly came in handy for young Tomas.

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    As such, it's pretty safe to say there wasn't a lot of weeping among certain segments of the Spanish community when Torquemada died on September 16, 1498.

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    In the end, under Torquemada, countless people were tortured and it is generally estimated that at least two thousand heretics were burned at the stake between 1480 and 1530 in Spain.

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    The irony of the situation was that Tomas de Torquemada himself was a descendant of a converso, the term used to describe a Spaniard who converted to Christianity from Judaism or Islam.

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    Since the Moors were no longer an issue, Inquisitor General Tomas de Torquemada suggested to Ferdinand and Isabella that ousting the Jews so Spain would be an exclusively Christian country would be a good idea.

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    The fame of the Sobrino de Botín restaurant is such that it has appeared in various literary works, such as Fortunata and Jacinta, Mercy or Torquemada and San Pedro, all of them by Benito Pérez Galdós.

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    On page 219 the same books adds:“ Fray Juan de Torquemada tells us something about this in the book Monarquía Indiana( Indian Monarchy):‘ The children would be taken to the sacrificial place richly dressed, atop portable platforms or litters, abundantly decorated with flowers and feathers, and these would be carried along on the shoulders of priests and ministers.

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