Photo: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons¹¹

Pedro de Arbués

Spanish canon regular and inquisitor (c.1441–1485)

Pedro de Arbués, also known as Peter of Arbués (c. 1441 – 17 September 1485) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed Augustinian canon.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Pedro de Arbués (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1441, died Sep 17, 1485.¹

About

He served as an official of the Spanish Inquisition until he was assassinated in the La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza in 1485 by Jews and conversos. The veneration of him came swiftly through popular acclaim. His death greatly assisted the Inquisitor-General Tomás de Torquemada's campaign against heretics and crypto-Jews. His canonization was celebrated on 29 June 1867.

As a result, a popular movement against the Jews arose in which nine were executed, two killed themselves, thirteen were burnt in effigy, and four punished for complicity, from 30 June to 15 December 1486, according to the historian Jerónimo Zurita. Leonardo Sciascia in Morte dell'inquisitore (1964) writes (erroneously) that Arbués along with Juan Lopez de Cisneros (d. 1657) are "the only two cases of inquisitors who died assassinated".

From Wikipedia’s article on Pedro de Arbués, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

University of ZaragozaFounder¹⁰

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Bologna³
Date not recordedStudium Generale Civitatis Caesaraugustane³

Career

Occupation: Catholic priest, inquisitor, canon.⁶

1485Inquisitor General of Aragon⁵
Date not recordedFounded University of Zaragoza⁴

Personal life

Born1441, Épila⁷
DiedSep 17, 1485, Zaragoza⁸
CitizenshipKingdom of Aragon⁹

Sources

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WikidataPedro de Arbués on Wikidata
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WikipediaPedro de Arbués on Wikipedia
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: education, on Wikidata
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: Founded University of Zaragoza, on Wikidata
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: Inquisitor General of Aragon, on Wikidata
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: place of death, on Wikidata
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WikidataPedro de Arbués: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataUniversity of Zaragoza, Founder
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Wikimedia CommonsPedro de Arbués photo by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Public domain