Fernando de Valdés y Salas, (Salas

Salas

Salas is a town and concejo in the Principality of Asturias. It lies on the road from San Sebastián to Santiago de Compostela, and on a small subtributary of the river Narcea...

, Asturias

Asturias

The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

, 1483-Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, 1568, aged 85) was a Spanish churchman and jurist, Professor of Canon Law at the University of Salamanca

University of Salamanca

The University of Salamanca is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the town of Salamanca, west of Madrid. It was founded in 1134 and given the Royal charter of foundation by King Alfonso IX in 1218. It is the oldest founded university in Spain and the third oldest European...

, and later its Chancellor.

He was member of the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition

Spanish Inquisition

The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition , commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition , was a tribunal established in 1480 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms, and to replace the Medieval...

 from 1516, Bishop of Orense, (1529 - 1532), Bishop of Oviedo, (July 1532 - May 1539) , Bishop of León,(1539), Bishop of Sigüenza,(October 1539 - August 1546), Archbishop of Seville, (August 1546 - December 1566), President of the Royal Council of Castile, Inquisitor General, (1547-1566). He published an "Index of Forbidden books" in 1559, including Erasmus of Rotterdam, (October 27, 1466/1469 – July 12, 1536), Frey Louis of Granada

Louis of Granada

Louis of Granada was a Dominican theologian, writer, and preacher.- Biography :He was born of poor parents at Granada. At the age of nineteen he was received into the Dominican Order in the convent of Santa Cruz, Granada. His philosophical studies once over, he was chosen by his superiors to...

,(Granada, 1505 - Lisbon, Portugal, December 31, 1588), Saint Francisco de Borja, ( 3 October 1510 - 28 September 1572), and other authors.

He tried to clean out heterodox people, associated to Jewish and Moslem "conversos" and Erasmist and Lutheran circles, discovered in 1558, from the high nobility and the high ecclesiastical positions around Valladolid

Valladolid

Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...

 and Sevilla, with the Archbishop of Toledo, (1558 - May 2, 1576), born in 1503 at Miranda de Arga

Miranda de Arga

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, Navarre

Navarre

Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...

, Bartolomé Carranza

Bartolomé Carranza

Bartolomé Carranza , Spanish theologian and Archbishop of Toledo, sometimes called de Miranda or de Carranza y Miranda, who spent much of his later life imprisoned on charges of heresy....

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