When was Inquisition popular?

Question: When was Inquisition popular!?

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Which inquisition do you mean!? Historians distinguish between 4 different manifestations of the inquisition, the Medieval inquisition, 1184-1230!. The Spanish inquisition (most well known), was set up by king Ferdinand and queen Isabella in 1478, and was mainly against judaism and islam!. Thirdly, the Portugese inquisition, 1536, many jews were expelled from Portugal and others forcibly converted to catholicism!. Lastly, the Roman inquisition, 1542, established
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The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy!. It was not definitively abolished until 1834, during the reign of Isabel II!.

At first, the activity of the Inquisition was limited to the dioceses of Seville and Cordoba, where Alonso de Hojeda had detected the centre of converso activity!. The first auto de fe was celebrated in Seville on February 6, 1481: six people were burned alive!. The sermon was given by the same Alonso de Hojeda whose suspicions had given birth to the Inquisition!. From there, the Inquisition grew rapidly in the Kingdom of Castile!. By 1492, tribunals existed in eight Castilian cities: ávila, Córdoba, Jaén, Medina del Campo, Segovia, Sigüenza, Toledo and Valladolid!.

Establishing the new Inquisition in the Kingdom of Aragón was more difficult!. In reality, Ferdinand did not resort to new appointments, he simply resuscitated the old Pontifical Inquisition, submitting it to his direct control!. The population of Aragón was obstinately opposed to the Inquisition!. In addition, differences between Ferdinand and Sixtus IV prompted the latter to promulgate a new bull categorically prohibiting the Inquisition's extension to Aragon!. In this bull, the Pope unambiguously criticized the procedures of the inquisitorial court, affirming that,

many true and faithful Christians, because of the testimony of enemies, rivals, slaves and other low people--and still less appropriate--without tests of any kind, have been locked up in secular prisons, tortured and condemned like relapsed heretics, deprived of their goods and properties, and given over to the secular arm to be executed, at great danger to their souls, giving a pernicious example and causing scandal to many!.[8]

Nevertheless, pressure[citation needed] by Ferdinand caused the Pope to suspend this bull, and even promulgate another one, on October 17, 1483, naming Tomás de Torquemada Inquisidor General of Aragón, Valencia and Catalonia!. With it, the Inquisition became the only institution with authority throughout all the kingdoms of the Spanish monarchy, and, in all of them, a useful mechanism at the service of the crown!. However, the cities of Aragón continued resisting, and even saw periods of revolt, like in Teruel from 1484 to 1485!. However, the murder of inquisidor Pedro Arbués in Zaragoza on September 15, 1485, caused public opinion to turn against the conversos and in favour of the Inquisition!. In Aragón, the inquisitorial courts were focused specifically on members of the powerful converso minority, ending their influence in the Aragonese administration!.

The Inquisition was extremely active between 1480 and 1530!. Different sources give different estimates of the number of trials and executions in this period; Henry Kamen estimates about 2,000 executed, based on the documentation of the Autos de Fé, the great majority being conversos of Jewish origin!.[9]

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