Antonio Tavira y Almazán

Antonio Tavira y Almazán, (Iznatoraf, province of Jaen, 30 Sptember 1737 - Salamanca, January 1807). A member of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1775 to 1807. Notorious archeologist of visigothic remains, near Cabezo del Griego, described since then as Segobriga. With some clashes with the Spanish Inquistion, related to the regalist wishes of King Carlos IV of Spain to give to the Bishops jurisdiction on the annulement of marriages, he was also the Honorary Chaplain of King Charles III of Spain since 1772, aged 36. A Knight and a Prior of the Military Order of Santiago in Uclés, province of Cuenca, (1788 - 1789), Bishop of Canarias, (1791 - 1796), Bishop of Osma, (1796 - 1798), Bishop of Salamanca, (1798 - 1807).

He was very good friend of Minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, suspicious both to the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the XVIII Century of comptent and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire, Abbé Grégoire, (Vého, (Trois-Évêchés), near Luneville, France, 4 December 1750 - Paris, 20 May 1831).

He ordained as a Bishop of Salamanca, (perhaps), Catholic Bishop of Maximionopolis, Palestine, to the Scotch Priest Alexander Cameron, ( Braemar, Aberdeenshire, 28 July 1747 - Bishop of Maximionopolis, Palestine] by Tavira 28 October 1798- Vicar Apostolic of Lowland District, around Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain, 24 Aug 1805 - 20 Aug 1825 Retired - died 7 February 1828, aged 80).

References

El Museo Virtual de Segobriga, (Virtual Museum of Segobriga, first researches by Antonio Tavira, 1788 - 1789):

* http://www.segobrigavirtual.es/