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JUAN DE TORQUEMADA (1388-1468)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TORQUEMADA (1388-1468)  , or rather JOHANNES DE TURRECRE 1ATA, See also:Spanish ecclesiastic, was See also:born at See also:Valladolid,in 1388, and was educated in that See also:city . At an See also:early See also:age he joined the Dominican See also:order, and soon distinguished himself for learning and devotion . In 1415 he accompanied the See also:general of his order to the See also:Council of See also:Constance, whence he proceeded to See also:Paris for study, and took his See also:doctor's degree in 1423 . After teaching for some See also:time in Paris he became See also:prior of the Dominican See also:house first in Valladolid and then in See also:Toledo . In 1431 See also:Pope See also:Eugenius IV. called him to See also:Rome and made him " magister sancti palatii." At the Council of See also:Basel he was one of the ablest supporters of the view of the See also:Roman See also:curia, and he was rewarded with a See also:cardinal's See also:hat in 1439 . He died at Rome on the 26th of See also:September 1468 . His See also:principal See also:works are In Gratiani Decretum See also:commentarii (4 vols., See also:Venice, 1578) ; Expositio brevis et utilis super tote psalterio (See also:Mainz, 1474) ; Quaestiones spirituales super evangelic totius anni (See also:Brixen, 1498); Summa ecclesiastica (See also:Salamanca, 1550) . The last-named See also:work has the following topics: (1) De universa See also:ecclesia; (2) De Ecclesia See also: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 See also:preface and notes by E . B .

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Pusey (See also:London, 1869 seq.) .

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