Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Tomas de Torquemada
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TORQUEMADA, Tomas de, inquisitor-general for Castile and Leon, was born early in the 15th century, and died in 1498. When called to the work with which his name is so unenviably associated he was prior of the Dominican house in Segovia. See Inquisition.