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Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros was a cardinal and [[statesman]], born in [[Castile]], of a poor but [[noble]] family; studied at [[Salamanca]] and went to [[Rome]], where he gained favor with the [[Pope]], who appointed him to the first vacant ecclesiastical preferment in [[Spain]], as the result of which he in [[1495]] became [[archbishop]] of [[Toledo]], but not till he was 60 years of age; in 10 years after this he became regent of Spain, and conducted the affairs of the kingdom with consummate ability.<ref name="a">{{Nuttall|Ximenes de Cisneros, Francisco</ref> He was a severe man, and he was careful to promote what he considered the best and highest interests of the nation; but he was narrow-minded, and did often more harm than good; he was intolerant of heresy such as the Church deemed it to be, and contrived by his policy to confer more than sovereign rights upon the crown. He was to Spain pretty much what [[Richelieu]] was to [[France]].<ref name="a"/>

'''Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros''' was a cardinal and [[statesman]], born in [[Castile]], of a poor but [[noble]] family; studied at [[Salamanca]] and went to [[Rome]], where he gained favor with the [[Pope]], who appointed him to the first vacant ecclesiastical preferment in [[Spain]], as the result of which he, in [[1495]] became [[archbishop]] of [[Toledo]], but not till he was 60 years of age.

 

In 1505, Cisneros became regent of Spain, and conducted the affairs of the kingdom with consummate ability.<ref name="a">{{Nuttall|Ximenes de Cisneros, Francisco</ref>  

 

Cisneros was a severe man, and was careful to promote what he considered the best and highest interests of the nation; but he was narrow-minded, and did often more harm than good; he was intolerant of heresy such as the Church deemed it to be, and contrived by his policy to confer more than sovereign rights upon the crown. He was to Spain pretty much what [[Richelieu]] was to [[France]].<ref name="a"/>

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