TARANCON, EMANUELE GIOACCHINO. - Cardinal, b. at Covarrubias, diocese of Sigüenza, on 20 March 1782, d. at Seville on 25 Aug. 1862.
After having held the offices of professor of law and rector of the University of Valladolid and of councillor of the Royal Academy of Mathematics and Noble Arts, he was appointed (1822) capitular vicar and later (1824) vicar general in the same diocese. He was subsequently a deputy to the Cortes for the province of Soria (1835), senator and vice president of the Senate (1836), member and then president (1839) of the Commission that was to examine the affairs of Cuba. In 1841 he received the appointment as president of the Monte di Pietà of Madrid, and three years later he was called to the direction of the studies of the future Queen Isabella II and of her sister the infanta Luisa Fernanda, and for their instruction he wrote an interesting treatise on ancient and modern history. Elected in 1847 bishop of Zamora, he was transferred in the same year to the see of Cordova, and in this period he took a large part in the negotiations for the stipulation of the Concordat between the Holy See and Spain, which was chiefly the work of the nuncio Brunelli, later cardinal, and which was promulgated in 1851. Promoted in 1850 archbishop of Seville, he was created cardinal by Pius IX in the Consistory of 15 March 1858, but he was unable to go to Rome to receive the galero.
At his death the very rich Library, of particular interest for the sacred sciences and for the history of the Iberian peninsula, was divided between the University of Valladolid and the Seminaries of Cordova, Seville and Valladolid.