Inquisitor

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Tomás de Torquemada, 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and Grand Inquisitor

An inquisitor was an

Catholic faith. Literally, an inquisitor is one who "searches out" or "inquires" (Latin
inquirere < quaerere, 'to seek').

In some cases, inquisitors sought out the social networks that people used to spread heresy.

There were multiple national inquisitions with different approaches and targets.

Controversies

In the Albigensian Crusade a second-hand story arose that inquisitor and general Arnaud Amalric at the storming of Béziers advocated general slaughter, saying “Kill them. For God knows who are his.”[1] Amalric's own report to the Pope was that his troops jumped the gun and took over the town violently before he was aware.

Prominent inquisitors

Some of the better-known and notable inquisitors throughout history include:

From fiction

See also

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