Spanish Inquisition

  • Sep 21, 1400

    Motives

    Offenses other then hersey, sorcery, alchemy, blasphemy, sexual abberation, and infancticide.
  • Sep 21, 1427

    What it is.

    The inquisition was a medieval church court instituted to seek out and prosecuted heretics. 1400 - 1500
  • Sep 21, 1430

    Where it occured.

    Spain
  • Sep 21, 1448

    Why.

    An interrogation, and tried to obtain the confession that was necessary for conviction.
  • Sep 21, 1456

    Methods

    Torture.
  • Sep 21, 1478

    When.

  • Sep 21, 1483

    Who.

    On the insistence of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, Pope Sixtus IV endorsed