Fernando de Valdés y Salas

Fernando de Valdés y Salas, (Salas, Asturias, 1483-Madrid, 1568, aged 85) was a Spanish churchman and jurist, Professor of Canon Law at the University of Salamanca, and later its Chancellor.

He was member of the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition from 1516, Bishop of Orense, (1529 - 1532), Bishop of Oviedo, (July 1532 - May 1539) , Bishop of León,(1539), Bishop of Sigüenza,(October 1539 - August 1546), Archbishop of Seville, (August 1546 - December 1566), President of the Royal Council of Castile, Inquisitor General, (1547-1566). He published an "Index of Forbidden books" in 1559, including Erasmus of Rotterdam, (October 27, 1466/1469 – July 12, 1536), Frey Louis of Granada,(Granada, 1505 - Lisbon, Portugal, December 31, 1588), Saint Francisco de Borja, ( 3 October 1510 - 28 September 1572), and other authors.

He tried to clean out heterodox people, associated to Jewish and Moslem "conversos" and Erasmist and Lutheran circles, discovered in 1558, from the high nobility and the high ecclesiastical positions around Valladolid and Sevilla, with the Archbishop of Toledo, (1558 - May 2, 1576), born in 1503 at Miranda de Arga, Navarre,Bartolomé Carranza.

References

*J. R. ALONSO PEREIRA, "Historia General de la Arquitectura en Asturias". Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Asturias. Gran Enciclopedia Asturiana, (1996).(Gijón), Edit. Silverio Cañada, ISBN: 9788472863620, 366 pages, (In Spanish).
*http://centros5.pntic.mec.es/ies.arzobispo.valdes.salas/concejo.html

This page is written by secondary school students from Salas, Asturias, Spain. There, information is given about thealabaster memorial hosting the mortal remains of General Inquisitor, Fernando Valdés, Founder of the University of Oviedo at the Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor, (Salas), made by the Spanish Royalty Sculptor, son of Leone Leoni, (1509 — 22 July 1590), an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, the Spanish Netherlands and Spain, Pompeo Leoni, (circa 1533 - 1608), also a skilfull bronze foundry worker.