Hernando de Talavera

Who was Hernando de Talavera?

Hernando de Talavera, was a Spanish monk of the Order of Saint Jerome of converso origins.

Around 1458, Hernando de Talavera graduated in Theology from Salamanca University, becoming a Prior of the Monastery of Prado, near Valladolid, Royal Confessor of the ruling Queen Isabel I of Castile. Hernando de Talavera was also a financial Administrator of Salamanca Bishopric, the Bishop of Avila, and Archbishop of Granada, the last conquered Moor Kingdom of Granada.

According to the accusations raised against him by the Spanish Inquisition, Hernando de Talavera was the son of the Lord of Oropesa, province of Toledo, related to Great Master of the Military Order of Santiago, and the bastard son born out of a Jewish mother fathered by King Alfonso XI of Castile.

Therefore Hernando de Talavera might have been the son of Don Garcia, Lord of Talavera de la Reina, born around 1370 and deceased after 1429 and with Royal hebraic blood, or might have been the son of Don Garcia, Fernando, born around 1390, who would have had a relationship with an Hebraic woman from Oropesa, near Talavera de la Reina and would have even been promoted to 1st Count of Oropesa after around 1475 by Queen Isabel I of Castile.