Tribunal de la Inquisición de Corte
Item
Country
ES
Name of institution (English)
National Historical Archive
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
spa
Contact information: postal address
Serrano 115, 28006 Madrid
Contact information: phone number
0034 917688500
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
ahn@cultura.gob.es
Reference number
INQUISICIÓN
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (English)
Royal Court Inquisition
Title (official language of the state)
Tribunal de la Inquisición de Corte
Language of title
spa
Creator / accumulator
Tribunal de la Inquisición de Corte
Date(s)
1607/1834
Language(s)
spa
Extent
1 box and 4 books
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Tribunal de la Inquisición de Corte fonds comprises documentation produced by the Inquisition at the Royal Court. This Inquisition fonds is singular because, while others refer to extensive geographic areas, this one mainly concerns a particular institution: the Royal Court in Madrid. Given the importance of some converso families in the Spanish Royal Court and their occasional presence in Madrid, some documents are expected to contain information regarding them. Records dating from before the mid-17th century should be of particular importance, as that was when the financial services to the Crown were highly dependent on some conversos.
The fonds only contains one archival unit available online, referring to the correspondence of the 17th and 18th centuries. This Tribunal depended on the Inquisition of Toledo—one of the most consequential Inquisition courts in the Iberian Peninsula—and functioned in close proximity with it.
In most cases, consultation of these documents should be complemented with research on other district courts and the Consejo de Inquisicion (Inquisition Council) fonds, which contains documentation produced by the Suprema (Supreme Council of the Inquisition), which had jurisdiction over all inquisitorial courts in Spanish territories.
The fonds only contains one archival unit available online, referring to the correspondence of the 17th and 18th centuries. This Tribunal depended on the Inquisition of Toledo—one of the most consequential Inquisition courts in the Iberian Peninsula—and functioned in close proximity with it.
In most cases, consultation of these documents should be complemented with research on other district courts and the Consejo de Inquisicion (Inquisition Council) fonds, which contains documentation produced by the Suprema (Supreme Council of the Inquisition), which had jurisdiction over all inquisitorial courts in Spanish territories.
Archival history
After the extinction of the Inquisition in Spain, most documents were sent to the Archivo General de Simancas. From 1896, the inquisitorial fonds held in Simancas and Alcalá were sent to the Archivo Historico Nacional, where the Inquisición section was created. That section has been completed by incorporating other series of inquisitorial documents stored in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (National Library of Spain) in 1914.
Administrative / Biographical history
Initially, Madrid and the Royal Court were under the jurisdiction of the Tribunal of the Inquisition of Toledo. However, the General Inquisitor appointed extraordinary inquisitors for more effective control. In 1620, an inquisitor with permanent residence in the Court was appointed, but that did not result in the establishment of a separate Tribunal. In 1637, there was another attempt to create a delegated Tribunal of Toledo. A third and final attempt was made in 1647. In 1659, the new delegated Tribunal became independent. It lasted until 1820.
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Author of the description
Kevin Soares, 2023
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