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This page is about the cardinal and theologian. For his nephew the Grand Inquisitor, see Tomás de Torquemada. For the Franciscan missionary, see Fray Juan de Torquemada.
Juan de Torquemada (church Latin Johannes de Turre cremata, various spellings) O.P.
(1388 – 26 September 1468), Spanish ecclesiastic, defender of Jewish conversos, has been described as the most articulate papal apologist of the fifteenth century.
Juan de torquemada biography for kids
He was an uncle of Tomás de Torquemada, afterwards notorious as the persecuting Grand Inquisitor.
Life
Juan de Torquemada was born in Valladolid, Spain. “There is a general historical consensus that the family were former Jews“.
Though those converso origins are very often stated without providing any source, they are “based primarily on Hernando del Pulgar’s statement that Juan de Torquemada’s abuelos were converts from the Jewish faith“. As a converso, Pulgar is considered to have made this assertion out of hate