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An inquisitor was an official in an Inquisition
Inquisition

The term Inquisition can refer to any one of several institutions charged with trying and convicting Christian heresy within the Roman Catholic Church....
, an organisation or program intended to eliminate heresy
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
 and other things frowned on by the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 inquirere < quaerere, "to seek").

The chief inquisitor of an Inquisition was often called the Grand Inquisitor
Grand Inquisitor

Grand Inquisitor is the lead official of an Inquisition. The most famous Inquisitor General is probably the Spanish Dominican Order Tom?s de Torquemada, who spearheaded the Spanish Inquisition....
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An inquisitor was an official in an Inquisition
Inquisition

The term Inquisition can refer to any one of several institutions charged with trying and convicting Christian heresy within the Roman Catholic Church....
, an organisation or program intended to eliminate heresy
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
 and other things frowned on by the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 inquirere < quaerere, "to seek").

The chief inquisitor of an Inquisition was often called the Grand Inquisitor
Grand Inquisitor

Grand Inquisitor is the lead official of an Inquisition. The most famous Inquisitor General is probably the Spanish Dominican Order Tom?s de Torquemada, who spearheaded the Spanish Inquisition....
.

Prominent inquisitors

Some of the more well-known inquisitors throughout history include:
  • Arnaut Catalan
    Arnaut Catalan

    Arnaut Catalan was a troubadour active in the Languedoc, Catalonia, and Castile . He left behind five Canso , three tensos, and one religious song....
  • Bernard Gui
    Bernard Gui

    Bernard Gui , also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis, was an Inquisition of the Dominican Order in the Late Middle Ages during the Medieval Inquisition, Bishop of Lod?ve, and one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages....
  • Diego Deza
    Diego Deza

    Diego Deza was a theology and inquisitor of Spain. He was one of the more notable figures in the Spanish Inquisition, and succeeded the notorious Tom?s de Torquemada to the post of Grand Inquisitor....
  • Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII
    Pope Alexander VII

    Pope Alexander VII , born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from April 7, 1655, until his death....
    )
  • Heinrich Institoris, author of Malleus Maleficarum
    Malleus Maleficarum

    The Malleus Maleficarum is a famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, two Inquisition of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany in 1487....
  • Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
  • Francisco Peña
    Francisco Peña

    Francisco Pe?a was a Spanish canon lawyer....
  • James Sprenger
    James Sprenger

    James Sprenger was a Switzerland priest. He was born near Basel....
    , possible co-author of Malleus Maleficarum
    Malleus Maleficarum

    The Malleus Maleficarum is a famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, two Inquisition of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany in 1487....
  • Konrad von Marburg
    Konrad von Marburg

    Konrad von Marburg was a 13th century Germany inquisitor. He was commissioned by the Pope to combat the Albigensians, whom the Roman Catholic Church considered heresy....
  • Pedro de Arbués
    Pedro de Arbués

    Pedro de Arbu?s was an official of the Spanish Inquisition who was Assassination in Saragossa Cathedral in 1484 in an alleged plot by conversos and Jews....
  • Tomás de Torquemada
    Tomás de Torquemada

    Tom?s de Torquemada was a fifteenth century Spain Dominican Order, first Inquisitor General of Spain, and confessor to Isabella I of Castile. He was famously described by the Spanish chronicler Sebasti?n de Olmedo as "The hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the saviour of his country, the honour of his order"....
  • Nicolau Aymerich author of Directorium Inquisitorum
    Directorium Inquisitorum

    The Directorium Inquisitorum is Nicholas Eymerich's most prominent and enduring work, which he had composed as early as 1376. Eymerich had written an earlier treatise on magic , perhaps as early as 1359, which he extensively reworked into the Directorium Inqusitorum The Directorium Inquisitorum defined witchcraft, and described me...
  • Sebastien Michaelis
    Sebastien Michaelis

    Sebastien Michaelis was a French inquisitor and prior of the Dominican order who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His Histoire admirable de la possession d'une penitente , includes a classification of demons which has passed into general use in esoteric literature....