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An inquisitor was an official (usually with judicial or investigative functions) in an inquisition – an organization or program intended to eliminate heresy and other things contrary to the doctrine or teachings of the Catholic faith. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" ( Latin inquirere < quaerere, 'to seek').
In some cases, inquisitors sought out the social networks that people used to spread heresy.
There were multiple national inquisitions with different approaches and targets.
Controversies
In the Albigensian Crusade a second-hand story arose that inquisitor and general Arnaud Amalric at the storming of Béziers advocated general slaughter, saying “Kill them. For God knows who are his.” [1] Amalric's own report to the Pope was that his troops jumped the gun and took over the town violently before he was aware.
Prominent inquisitors
Some of the better-known and notable inquisitors throughout history include:
- Peter of Verona (also known as Saint Peter Martyr), whose canonization was the fastest in history
- Pedro de Arbués
- Nicolau Aymerich author of Directorium Inquisitorum
- Stephen of Bourbon
- Arnaut Catalan
- Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII)
- Diego Deza
- Bernard Gui
- Heinrich Institoris, author of Malleus Maleficarum
- Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
- Konrad von Marburg
- Sebastien Michaelis
- Giovanni Pietro Carafa (later Pope Paul IV)
- Jacob Sprenger, purported co-author of Malleus Maleficarum
- Tomás de Torquemada
- Martín García Ceniceros
- Hentenius (1540s-1566)
- Vincenza Matilde Testaferrata, female inquisitor
From fiction
See also
- Grand Inquisitor
- Medieval Inquisition
- Spanish Inquisition
- Portuguese Inquisition
- Roman Inquisition
- Mexican Inquisition
- Inquisitorial system, a type of legal system
References
- ^ Ormerod, Paul; Roach, Andrew P (2004-08-15). "The Medieval inquisition: scale-free networks and the suppression of heresy". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 339 (3): 648. arXiv: cond-mat/0306031. Bibcode: 2004PhyA..339..645O. doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.03.020. ISSN 0378-4371. S2CID 10947858.
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An inquisitor was an official (usually with judicial or investigative functions) in an inquisition – an organization or program intended to eliminate heresy and other things contrary to the doctrine or teachings of the Catholic faith. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" ( Latin inquirere < quaerere, 'to seek').
In some cases, inquisitors sought out the social networks that people used to spread heresy.
There were multiple national inquisitions with different approaches and targets.
Controversies
In the Albigensian Crusade a second-hand story arose that inquisitor and general Arnaud Amalric at the storming of Béziers advocated general slaughter, saying “Kill them. For God knows who are his.” [1] Amalric's own report to the Pope was that his troops jumped the gun and took over the town violently before he was aware.
Prominent inquisitors
Some of the better-known and notable inquisitors throughout history include:
- Peter of Verona (also known as Saint Peter Martyr), whose canonization was the fastest in history
- Pedro de Arbués
- Nicolau Aymerich author of Directorium Inquisitorum
- Stephen of Bourbon
- Arnaut Catalan
- Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII)
- Diego Deza
- Bernard Gui
- Heinrich Institoris, author of Malleus Maleficarum
- Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
- Konrad von Marburg
- Sebastien Michaelis
- Giovanni Pietro Carafa (later Pope Paul IV)
- Jacob Sprenger, purported co-author of Malleus Maleficarum
- Tomás de Torquemada
- Martín García Ceniceros
- Hentenius (1540s-1566)
- Vincenza Matilde Testaferrata, female inquisitor
From fiction
See also
- Grand Inquisitor
- Medieval Inquisition
- Spanish Inquisition
- Portuguese Inquisition
- Roman Inquisition
- Mexican Inquisition
- Inquisitorial system, a type of legal system
References
- ^ Ormerod, Paul; Roach, Andrew P (2004-08-15). "The Medieval inquisition: scale-free networks and the suppression of heresy". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications. 339 (3): 648. arXiv: cond-mat/0306031. Bibcode: 2004PhyA..339..645O. doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.03.020. ISSN 0378-4371. S2CID 10947858.
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