Inquisitor
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').
Tomás de Torquemada, 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and Grand Inquisitor
Prominent inquisitors
Some of the more well-known 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
- Hentenius
- 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
See also
- Grand Inquisitor
- Medieval Inquisition
- Spanish Inquisition
- Portuguese Inquisition
- Roman Inquisition
- Mexican Inquisition
- Inquisitorial system, a type of legal system
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