biography
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Ximénes (de Cisneros), Francisco Jiménez
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pronunciation:
[heemenes]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1436–1517)
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| biography:
| Grand inquisitor and civil administrator of Spain, born in Torrelaguna, C Spain. He was educated at Alcalá, Salamanca, and Rome, where he obtained from the pope a nomination to the archpriestship of Uzeda (1473). The archbishop refused to admit him, and for six years imprisoned him. Released in 1479, he was named vicar-general of Cardinal Mendoza, but gave this up to enter a Franciscan monastery at Toledo (1482). Queen Isabella chose him for her confessor in 1492, and in 1495 made him Archbishop of Toledo. He was created a cardinal in 1507. On the death of Ferdinand (1516) he was appointed regent during the minority of the later Charles V. He succeeded in spreading the power of the Inquisition to Oran, Islas Canarias, and Cuba, although before his appointment he had opposed the establishment of the Inquisition. A munificent patron of religion and learning, in 1506 he founded the University of Alcalá, where he recruited a team of scholars for the Complutensian Bible. |
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