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    Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, active as missionary in colonial Mexico and considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of...
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    Juan de Torquemada (Ecclesiastical Latin: Johannes de Turre cremata, various spellings) O.P. (1388 – 26 September 1468), Spanish ecclesiastic, defender...
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  • Tomás de Torquemada Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – c. 1624), Spanish Franciscan friar, missionary and historian of the New World Torquemada (disambiguation)...
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  • leader of the Spanish Inquisition Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary...
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    Friar (redirect from Frays)
    Fray is sometimes used in Spain and former Spanish colonies such as the Philippines or the American Southwest as a title, such as in Fray Juan de Torquemada...
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  • His Relación de Texcoco was written in response to the Relación geográfica ca.1580. According to references by Fray Juan de Torquemada, he was born around...
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    college church designed by Fray Juan de Torquemada and dedicated to St James the Great (known as Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco), the remains of...
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    suspect devotions); fray Jerónimo de Mendieta (whose Historia eclesiástica indiana was written in the 1590s); and fray Juan de Torquemada who drew heavily...
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    sources for Techotlalatzin include Fray Juan de Torquemada, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Juan Bautista de Pomar, and Codex Xolotl, although these...
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  • N. de Morena or N. de Morera, name given to him by his contemporary Fray Juan de Torquemada and by most authors, was a European ship pilot in the 1577–1580...
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    Franciscan Toribio de Benavente Motolinia, Franciscan Fray Juan de Torquemada, and Texcocan historians Juan Bautista Pomar, and Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl...
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  • Yeazbalceta, Mexico, 1870); Juan de Torquemada, Los veinte y uno Libros Rituales y Monarchia Indiana con el origen y guerras de los Indios occidentales (first...
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    and never wishing to be married. The book Monarquía indiana by Fray Juan de Torquemada, published in 1615, briefly mentions the persecution of Aztec lesbians:...
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    ninth building of Templo Mayor according to Sahagún. According to Fray Juan de Torquemada, Chantico was also worshipped in a temple constructed by Moquihuix...
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    Toribio de Benavente Motolinia, one of the first twelve Franciscans arriving in Mexico in 1524. Another Franciscan of great importance was Fray Juan de Torquemada...
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    to a god of duality. First, León-Portilla cites the Franciscan Fray Juan de Torquemada, who affirms in his chronicle that the "Indians wanted the divine...
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    word camellones, "ridges between the rows." However, Franciscan Fray Juan de Torquemada described them with the Nahua term, chinampa, saying "without much...
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    cultures and served purposes beyond that of a mere sporting event. Fray Juan de Torquemada, a 16th-century Spanish missionary and historian, tells that the...
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    the native groups established north of the Río Grande de Santiago. In 1615, Fray Juan de Torquemada identified La Quemada as one of the places visited by...
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  • Franciscan predecessor Fray Juan de Torquemada, author of Monarquia Indiana, of plagiarizing the work of Gerónimo de Mendieta. 1673: Arte de lengua mexicana...
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    Bartolomé de las Casas describes Quetzalcoatl as being fair-skinned, tall, and bearded (therefore suggesting an Old World origin), while Fray Juan de Torquemada...
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  • the Battle of Otumba. For their part, historians Fray Juan de Torquemada and Francisco Cervantes de Salazar also describe those feats, adding that she...
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  • Mexicanos con sola el agua y la forma Sacramental, which is cited by Fray Juan de Torquemada in his Monarquía Indiana. Karttunen, Frances E. (1994). Between...
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    were Fray Juan de Goana, Fray Francisco de Bustamante, Fray García de Cisneros, Fray Arnaldo de Basaccio, and Fray Juan Focher. Fray Juan de Torquemada also...
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  • followed by all the lords ruling together. According to the historian Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), who was likely familiar with the Anónimo Mexicano...
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    along with Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a member of the noble family that ruled Texcoco, and Franciscan Fray Juan de Torquemada are the most important...
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    such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Bartolomé de las Casas, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Fray Juan de Torquemada, Francisco Javier Clavijero...
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    Vetancurt, A. de Cronica de la Prov. del Santo Evangelo (Mexico, 1697); Vetancurt, A. de Menologio Franciscano (Mexico, 1697); Fray Juan de Torquemada, Monarquia...
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  • 1746–1780, Po) Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1484–1566, Spain, H/S) Michael De Medeiros (American, Bk) Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624, Mexico, P)...
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    At that time, much of the Tlacolula area was covered by a lake. Fray Juan de Torquemada thought that the Zapotecs arrived from a region called Panuco and...
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