Diego Sarmiento de Valladares

Diego Sarmiento de Valladares oversaw the auto-da-fé held in Plaza Mayor, Madrid in 1680, depicted here in a 1683 painting by Francisco Rizi.

Diego Sarmiento de Valladares (1615–1695) was a Spanish bishop who was Grand Inquisitor of Spain from 1669 to 1695.

Biography

Diego Sarmiento de Valladares was born in Vigo in 1615, the son of Luis Sarmiento, señor de Valladares and Inés de Arines Troncoso, señora de Camos.

Valladares was ordained as a priest on October 4, 1667. He was appointed Bishop of Oviedo on January 30, 1668. He was translated on September 17, 1668, becoming Bishop of Plasencia. Charles II of Spain also named him president of the Council of Castile at this time, and he held that post until 1669. In 1669, he became Grand Inquisitor of Spain. He resigned his bishopric on April 26, 1677, but remained Grand Inquisitor until his death. In this capacity, he oversaw one of the Spanish Inquisition's largest auto-da-fés of the seventeenth century, held in the Plaza Mayor, Madrid in 1680.

Valladares died in Madrid on January 29, 1695.

References

• This page is based on this page on Spanish Wikipedia.
• Profile from catholic-hierarchy.org

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Juan Everardo Nithard	Grand Inquisitor of Spain 1669—1695	Succeeded by Juan Tomás de Rocaberti