{"id":7156,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/francisco-jimenez-de-cisneros\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:05","slug":"francisco-jimenez-de-cisneros","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/alcala-de-henares\/alcala-de-henares-the-town-of-cisneros-cervantes-and-the-jesuits\/francisco-jimenez-de-cisneros\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Jim\u00e9nez de Cisneros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francisco Jim\u00e9nez de Cisneros <\/h1>\n
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\"Cisneros\"Francisco Jim\u00e9nez de Cisneros was born in Torrelaguna, in the Comunidad de Madrid<\/em>, in 1436. He studied theology and law at the Universities of Salamanca and Rome. He began his priestly career as Archpriest of Uceda and Vicar General of the Diocese of Sig\u00fcenza, but nevertheless ended up preferring the discipline and entered the Franciscan Order in 1484. He became provincial of the convent of San Juan de los Reyes in Toledo and soon established himself as one of the main advisers to the court of the Catholic Monarchs through his friendship with Queen Isabella the Catholic, who already had appointed him her confessor. In 1495 he was appointed archbishop of Toledo, and from there undertook to reform the Franciscan convents and to combat the corrupt morality of the secular clergy. In 1507 he obtained the cardinal’s hat and the following year began his most ambitious and innovative project: the founding of the University of Alcal\u00e1 de Henares. He was regent of the Iberian kingdoms on several occasions: at the death of Philip I the Handsome, in 1506, and pending the arrival of Charles I (Charles V as emperor) after the death of Ferdinand the Catholic, in 1516. Cardinal Cisneros died a year later, on November 8, 1517 in Roa, near Burgos.<\/p>\n

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