ARBUÉS, PEDRO DE°

ARBUÉS, PEDRO DE° (1441–1485), inquisitor of Saragossa. Arbués was appointed inquisitor of the archdiocese of Saragossa by torquemada in 1484. The establishment of an inquisitional tribunal in Saragossa aroused vigorous opposition in some aristocratic circles, connected by marriage with conversos . On the night of Sept. 14, 1485, Arbués was killed before the high altar in the cathedral. This act was utilized by the Inquisition for intensifying its activities, and many prominent Conversos were condemned for complicity in the crime. Arbués was venerated as a saint, and canonized in 1867. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Baer, Spain, 2 (1966), 367–71, 376, 379; H.C. Lea, History of the Inquisition in Spain, 1 (1906), 244–53; M. Serrano y Sanz, Origenes de la Dominacion Española en América (1918), 158–70, 509–20; F. Izquierdo Trol, San Pedro de Arbués, primer inquisidor de Aragón (1941); Conde de Castellano, Un complot terrorista en el siglo XV (1927). (Joseph Kaplan)