JUAN DE

TORQUEMADA (1388-1468)  , or rather JOHANNES DE TURRECRE 1ATA, Spanish ecclesiastic, was born at Valladolid,in 1388, and was educated in that city . At an early age he joined the Dominican order, and soon distinguished himself for learning and devotion . In 1415 he accompanied the general of his order to the Council of Constance, whence he proceeded to Paris for study, and took his doctor's degree in 1423 . After teaching for some time in Paris he became prior of the Dominican house first in Valladolid and then in Toledo . In 1431 Pope Eugenius IV. called him to Rome and made him " magister sancti palatii." At the Council of Basel he was one of the ablest supporters of the view of the Roman curia, and he was rewarded with a cardinal's hat in 1439 . He died at Rome on the 26th of September 1468 . His principal works are In Gratiani Decretum commentarii (4 vols., Venice, 1578) ; Expositio brevis et utilis super tote psalterio (Mainz, 1474) ; Quaestiones spirituales super evangelic totius anni (Brixen, 1498); Summa ecclesiastica (Salamanca, 1550) . The last-named work has the following topics: (1) De universa ecclesia; (2) De Ecclesia romana et pontificis primatu; (3) De universalibus conciliis; (4) De schismaticis et hacreticis . His De conceptione deiparae Mariae, libri viii . (Rome . 1547), was edited with preface and notes by E . B .

Pusey (London, 1869 seq.) .