Hernando de Talavera

Most Reverend Hernando de Talavera
Archbishop of Granada
Juan de Valdés Leal: Fray Hernando de Talavera, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla
Church	Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Diocese of Granada
Predecessor	Fernando de Castilla
Successor	Antonio de Rojas Manrique
Personal details
Born	1428 Talavera de la Reina, Spain
Died	14 May 1507 (age 79) Granada, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Previous post	Bishop of Ávila (1485–1492)

Hernando de Talavera (Talavera de la Reina, Spain, 1428 – Granada, Spain, 14 May 1507) was a Spanish monk of the Order of Saint Jerome, of converso origins, who became Archbishop of Granada and confessor of Queen Isabela.

Around 1458, Hernando graduated in Theology from Salamanca University, becoming a Prior of the Monastery of Prado near Valladolid and Royal Confessor of the ruling Queen Isabel I of Castile (1474–1504). Hernando de Talavera was also Financial Administrator of the Salamanca Bishopric (1483–1485), the Bishop of Avila (1485–1492), and Archbishop of Granada (1493–1507), which was established after the conquest of the Moorish Moorish Emirate of Granada.

According to the accusations raised against him by the Spanish Inquisition, Hernando de Talavera was the son of the Lord of Oropesa, a province of Toledo, related to the Great Master of the Military Order of Santiago and the bastard son of a Jewish mother, fathered by King Alfonso XI of Castile.

Wyn Hernando may have been the son of Don García, Lord of Talavera de la Reina, born around 1370 who died in 1429 with Royal Hebrew blood. Hernando may instead have been the son of Don Fernando, born around 1390, who would have had a relationship with a Hebrew woman from Oropesa, near Talavera de la Reina, and who would have been promoted to 1st Count of Oropesa after 1475 by Queen Isabel.