The Deadly History of the Spanish Inquisition

Dive deep into the truth behind the Spanish Inquisition with our latest video, "From Cohabitation to Forced Conversion." Unravel misconceptions, explore its origins, methods, and its role in shaping Spanish history. Let's uncover the reality beyond the myths!

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[COSMOKRAT_]

We apologise for all the comments about not expecting the spanish inquisition. Those responsible have been sacked.

[gregbors]

I wasn’t expecting so many comments about not expecting the Spanish Inquisition

[ghaznavid]

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

[HassanRadwan]

I once visited Chefchaouen in Morocco where it is said many Muslims and Jews fled after the expulsions from Spain. It still retains a vivid Andalusian culture distinct from other parts of Morocco. It's a lovely place and well worth a visit.

[kiwipuy]

Thanks so much for this video!! From a Spanish person.
I watched lots of content from Simon narration channels and I did expect a video like that away from rumours.

Just adding some info:
- Spanish inquisition had the bad luck to be highly official, that made them survive as a brand easy to distort and criticise. Also helped them to survive til XIX century as an institution which didnt help against the black legend and propaganda. Actually after French invasion some population welcomed the inquisition again as a sign of victory against the French.
- Indigenous people were exempt from inquisition judgement in the new world (once the government infrastructure establish itself) because it was said that they were new and dindt really know how to be proper cristians. And actually, funny thing, some indigenous people considered themselves purer cristians because they didnt have contact with jews or muslims in their roots.
- Important fact, when someone was guilty it meant that its money would go to the church. So, lot of caes was about money, but that happens still today with revenue and taxes. goverment always wants money from the normal people.

thanks!

[Germanicus]

Spanish inquisition was actually pretty tame compared to the inquisition in England or protestant countries.

[Herr_Artago]

Great video, it's really nice to see an English person telling all the facts about the Spanish Inquisition instead of spreading the black legend, which unfortunately most people around the world, including many Spaniards, still believe.
By the way, in Spanish we don't pronounce the h and hu is pronounced like an English w, so the correct pronunciation for Huerta is werta.

[arlesthegreat]

‘The Spanish Inquisition wasn’t as bad as you think! And now for a message from today’s sponsor: the Spanish inquisition!!’

[millriverfarm]

Learned so much from this video! You break down complex topics in such an understandable way. 📚

[adriangarrido]

Thank you Simon for sharing some knowledge about the Dark Legend that has been placed on Spain for centuries now.

[juanlapuente]

I wasn't expecting this objectivity

[carlkamuti]

13:50 You got your maths wrong, 0.015% of 87, 000 would have been 13 people. The true percentage of death sentences is 1.5%

[arpan]

You can also cover the Goan Inquisition. It's a rather unexplored topic of history, but the things perpetuated by it were rather horrifying.

[olegsoltis]

I remember reading “Archipelago GULAG” by Solzhenitsyn. He wrote that inquisition was a child’s play in comparison to what was done by communists-atheists in a few decades of 20th century. The 18th century French Revolution comes to mind too. Jacobites in about one year of their so called reign of terror put to death more people than inquisition in 300 years.

[tehgankerer]

I read that many accused in civil cases would feign blasphemy in order to be trialled by the more lenient and less harsh inquisitorial courts rather than secular courts.

[hughjass]

I never expected to learn so much new about The Spanish Inquisition!

[Kaltagstar]

Honestly? I really find it interesting that the jails of the Spanish Inquisitions might be in the running for the most pleasant prison of all time (especially for the time period). But then you remember that there's a very good reason why they have the brutal reputation that they do.

[yoyomismo]

I am going to clarify and add some important point that the Anglo revisionist "historians" always forget, I don't know if due to ignorance or intention.

Point 1: the Spanish inquisition is unique since it depends on the Spanish crown, not the papacy, what is the reason? Apart from a homogenization in the territories, it also served the crown to control the nobility since the complaints could be anonymous and the accused was never informed of either the author of the complaint or the crime, even a bishop was kept in prison for 11 years. prison so it was a weapon for the crown.

Point 2; The territory of current Spain was the only European territory in the 15th century in which there were still Jews. Since the 11th-12th century, expulsions were carried out in England, France, German principalities, current Hungary, etc.

To add something, Isabel of Castile thus surrounded herself with a good number of Jews to whom she entrusted important positions. And that, without mentioning her husband Fernando, who is said to have come from Jews on his mother's side.

The most prominent of all his collaborators was Abrahán Seneor, chief rabbi of Castile, who was the main treasurer of the General Brotherhood and the Caudales for the war in Granada, baptized in 1492. Samuel Abolafia was in charge of supplying the troops. During the Granada War, Vidal Astori was the King's silversmith, and Yusé Abrabanel, chief collector of the Livestock Service in November 1488. Isabel's three private secretaries were also Jews: López de Conchillos, Miguel Pérez de Almazán and Fernando del Pulgar, who was also an advisor and official chronicler.

Point 3: the context is important, in 1453 Constantinople falls, the Ottomans were at the gates of Vienna, they dominated the eastern Mediterranean and were expanding. The Catholic monarchs could not afford a community in the territory that acted as a fifth column, this danger It was conjured after the battle of Lepanto, 120 years passed between the two events, so it was a legitimate fear of the urgency of finishing the reconquest and securing them against a possible new invasion.

Point 3: in the Spanish overseas territories the courts of the inquisition executed 4 natives in 300 years of viceroyalty since it was declared that the natives were not subject to the inquisition because they were new to the religion, with 4 inquisitors for the entire territory American, the majority of those sentenced or executed were captured pirates, English, Dutch, etc.

[donotreadthis]

I often marvel at how many people seem to think salem, new englang is located in spain, have zero understanding of catholic tradition, doctrine and theology and derive almost all the think they know about the inquisition from one monty python sketch.

[gjergjcamaj]

Finally an honest overview of the spanish inquisition.