Prominent Inquisitors
Some of the more well-known inquisitors throughout history include:
- Pedro de Arbués
- Nicolau Aymerich author of Directorium Inquisitorum
- Stephen of Bourbon
- Arnaut Catalan
- Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII)
- Diego Deza
- Bernard Gui
- Hentenius
- Heinrich Institoris, author of Malleus Maleficarum
- Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
- Konrad von Marburg
- Sebastien Michaelis
- Francisco Peña
- Giovanni Pietro Carafa
- James Sprenger, possible co-author of Malleus Maleficarum
- Tomás de Torquemada
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