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Country
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PT
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Name of institution (English)
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The National Archive of Torre do Tombo
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Language of name of institution
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por
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Contact information: postal address
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Alameda da Universidade, 1649-010 Lisbon
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Contact information: phone number
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00351 210 037 100
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Contact information: email
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mail@dglab.gov.pt
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Reference number
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PT/TT/TSO-IT
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Inquisition of Tomar
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Title (official language of the state)
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Inquisição de Tomar
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Language of title
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por
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Creator / accumulator
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Tribunal do Santo Ofício
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Date(s)
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1541/1544
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Language(s)
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por
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Extent
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1 book
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This subfonds of the Tribunal do Santo Ofício is composed of only one book from the archive of the Inquisition of Tomar. Following the extinction of the court in 1547, its records were incorporated into the Inquisition of Lisbon. However, this book remained in the Convent of Tomar. It includes trials of New Christians sentenced in the Convent of Tomar by Prior António de Lisboa.
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Archival history
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After the extinction of the Inquisition of Tomar, its records joined the Inquisition of Lisbon archive. However, one book remained in the Convent of Tomar. This volume was incorporated into the National Archives of the Torre do Tombo in 1873, together with the registry of the Order of Christ.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The Holy Office Tribunal was officially established by the papal bull Cum ad nihil magis on May 23, 1536. Then, the royal court was settled in Évora. When the king moved to Lisbon in 1537, the Holy Office Tribunal followed him. The Inquisition of Lisbon was the only Inquisition court until 1541. Then, the courts of Coimbra, Évora, Porto, Lamego and Tomar were created. The latter three courts had short lives and were extinct in 1547 after the general pardon given by Pope Paul III to the New Christians and the following reorganisation of the Holy Office Tribunal.
The different territories of continental Portugal were under the authority of the courts of Lisbon (Central region), Coimbra (Northern region) and Évora (Southern region). The Inquisition of Lisbon also had jurisdiction over the Atlantic islands, Brazil and Portuguese territories in Western Africa. After the creation of the Inquisition of Goa in 1560, it took jurisdiction over the Portuguese territories in Asia and Eastern Africa.
The first Regiment of the Inquisition was only published in 1552. These by-laws were reviewed and collected in new regiments in 1613, 1640 and 1774. During the reign of King José, the Holy Office Tribunal became a royal court. It had already lost its primary target — the New Christians or conversos — after the decree that abolished the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. In addition, the censorship authority was transferred from the Holy Office to another secular tribunal, the Mesa da Consciência e Ordens. The Inquisition entered decadence and, in the sequence of the Liberal Revolution, the Cortes Gerais Constituintes (Parliament) extinguished the Holy Office Tribunal in 1821.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2023
