Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros1 OFM (1436 – November 8, 1517) was a Spanish Cardinal and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain, Cardinal, Grand Inquisitor, missionary of the Moors, promoted the Crusades in North Africa, and founded the Complutense University (currently the largest in Spain). Among his literary works he is best known for funding the ...

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1517 - Events. January 22 - Battle of Ridanieh. The Turkish forces of Selim I defeat the main Mamluk army in Egypt under Touman Bey. February 3 - Capture of Cairo by the Turks. First contact of organized western merchants with China. August 15 - Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade met Chinese officials through an interpreter at Pearl River estuary and landed at Hong Kong. October 31 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wit ...

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1436 - Events. April - Paris is recaptured by the French End of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. Sigismund is accepted as King. Alexandru I Aldea is replaced as ruler of Wallachia by Vlad II Dracul. 1436 - Births. June 6 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer (died 1476) November 26 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463) Isabella of Bourbon, wife of Charles the Bold (died 1465) Charlotte of Cyprus ...

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The university was founded in 1499 by Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros. During the 16th and 17th century, it gained recognition as a center of academic excellence, with students and faculty including Antonio de Nebrija, Juan de la Cruz, Lope de Vega and Francisco de Quevedo. In fact, its success was so great that is now considered to have been a substantial influence on the new universities being formed in the Americas. The eighteenth century saw great change at the University of Alcalá, including a new academic program charte ...

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From his new position Cisneros set about reforming the Franciscan order in Spain. The ordained friars had to give up the practice of having "wives" (or concubines). They had to reside in the parish where they were supposed to work, attend confession, and preach every Sunday. There was intense opposition. By 1498 the reforms were expanded to included not only Franciscans but other religious orders as well. The resistance was so fierce that four hundred monks and friars fled to Africa with their "wives" and became Muslims. The Minister General ...

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Cisneros was a bold and determined statesman. Stern and inflexible, with a confidence that became at times overbearing, he carried through what he had decided to be right, with as little regard for the convenience of others as for his own. In the midst of a corrupt clergy his morals were irreproachable. He was giving to all, and founded and maintained very many benevolent institutions in his diocese. His whole time was devoted either to the state or to reli ...

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On January 28, 1516 Ferdinand died, leaving Cisneros as regent of Castile for Charles (afterwards Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), then a youth of sixteen in the Netherlands. Though Cisneros at once took firm hold of the reins of government, and ruled in a determined and even autocratic manner, the turbulent Castilian nobility and the jealous intriguing Flemish councilors for Charles combined to render Cisneros position peculiarly difficult. In violation of the laws, Cisneros acceded to Charles's desire to be proclaimed king; he secured the p ...

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From his new position Cisneros set about reforming the Franciscan order in Spain. The ordained friars had to give up the practice of having "wives" (or concubines). They had to reside in the parish where they were supposed to work, attend confession, and preach every Sunday. There was intense opposition. By 1498 the reforms were expanded to included not only Franciscans but other religious orders as well. The resistance was so fierce that four hundred monks and friars fled to Africa with their "wives" and became Muslims. The Minister General ...

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