PARDO DE TAVERA, JUAN. - Politician and cardinal, b. at Toro (Zamora) on 16 May 1472, d. at Toledo on 1 Aug. 1545; he studied at Salamanca and was elected rector of that University in 1504; he was later auditor of the Council of the Inquisition and vicar general of the archbishopric of Seville.
In 1513 he was charged with reorganizing the Chancery of Valladolid; on 14 July 1514 he received the bishopric of Ciudad Rodrigo and was sent for some time to the court of Lisbon. On 31 Dec. 1523 he received the bishopric of Osma, then, on 8 June 1524, the metropolitan see of Compostela. He was furthermore president of the Chancery of Valladolid and of the Council of Castile. In 1525 he presided over the Cortes of Toledo, in which representatives of almost all the sovereigns of Europe and of the Pontiff took part; he was also placed in charge of the Cortes of Madrid, in 1528, on the occasion of the oath sworn by the future Philip II, regent of Spain in his father's absence. On 22 Feb. 1531, P. was named cardinal of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina and on 27 Apr. 1534 archbishop of Toledo; in 1539 inquisitor general of the Kingdom and governor of Castile and León.
Bibliography2 worksPastor, IV, II, pp. 433, 540; V, pp. 147, 411, 683.
BIBL.: Pastor, IV, II, pp. 433, 540; V, pp. 147, 411, 683.
Gulli, Luciano. “Pardo de Tavera, juan.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 817. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/pardo-de-tavera-juan.
MLA
Gulli, Luciano. “Pardo de Tavera, juan.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 817. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/pardo-de-tavera-juan.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_pardo_de_tavera_juan,
author = {Gulli, Luciano},
title = {Pardo de Tavera, juan},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {817},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/pardo-de-tavera-juan}
}
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