ERETICOPEDIA

Dizionario di eretici, dissidenti e inquisitori nel mondo mediterraneo
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List of the General Inquisitors of Portugal:

• Diogo da Silva OFM (23 May 1536 – 3 July 1539)
• Henrique de Avis (3 July 1539 – 27 December 1579)¹
• Jorge de Almeida (27 December 1579 – 20 March 1585)
• Albrecht VII Habsburg (25 January 1586 – 12 July 1596)²
• António de Matos de Noronha (12 July 1596 – 30 January 1601)³
• Alexandre de Bragança (29 July 1602 – 24 August 1604)⁴
• Pedro de Castilho (24 August 1604 – 31 March 1615)
• Fernão Martins Mascarenhas (4 July 1616 – 20 January 1628)
• Francisco de Castro (19 January 1630 – 1 January 1653)
• Pedro de Lencastre (26 October 1671 – 23 April 1673)
• Veríssimo de Lencastre (28 November 1676 – 12 December 1692)
• José de Lencastre OCarm (1 July 1693 – 13 September 1705)
• Nuno de Cunha da Ataíde (13 July 1707 – 15 December 1750)
• José de Bragança (15 March 1758 – 21 July 1760)
• João Cosme da Cunha CanReg (31 March 1770 – 31 January 1783)
• Inácio de São Caetano OCarm (6 February 1787 – 29 November 1788)
• José Maria de Melo Orat (25 January 1791 – 9 January 1818)
• José da Cunha de Azevedo Coutinho (11 September 1818 – 5 April 1821)

Bibliography

• Antonio da Sousa, Aphorismi Inquisitorum in Quatuor Libros Distributi, Lugdunum 1669, pp. 7-12
• A.J. Saraiva, H.P. Salomon, I.S.D. Sassoon, The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765, BRILL 2001, p. 379
• Ana Isabel López-Salazar: Between the Inquisition and the king: the favorites and the secretaries of State (1580-1736), e-Journal of Portuguese History, vol.13 no.1 Porto 2015
• Ana Isabel López-Salazar, General Inquisitors and the Portuguese Crown in the Seventeenth Century: Between Political Service and the Defense of the Faith (1578–1705), [in:] Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2013, pp. 79-90

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