Antonio Tavira y Almazán

Who was Antonio Tavira y Almazán?

Antonio Tavira y Almazán,. A member of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1775 to 1807. Notorious archeologist of visigothic remains, near Cabezo del Griego, described since then as Segobriga. With some clashes with the Spanish Inquisition, related to the regalist wishes of King Carlos IV of Spain to give to the Bishops jurisdiction on the annulement of marriages, he was also the Honorary Chaplain of King Charles III of Spain since 1772, aged 36. A Knight and a Prior of the Military Order of Santiago in Uclés, province of Cuenca, Bishop of Canarias, Bishop of Osma, Bishop of Salamanca,.

He was very good friend of Minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, suspicious both to the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the 18th century of comptent and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire, Abbé Grégoire,.

He ordained as a Bishop of Salamanca, Catholic Bishop of Maximionopolis, Palestine, to the Scottish Priest Alexander Cameron,.