- Antonio Tavira y Almazán
Antonio Tavira y Almazán, (
Iznatoraf ,province of Jaen , 30 Sptember 1737 -Salamanca , January 1807). A member of theRoyal Spanish Academy from 1775 to 1807. Notorious archeologist of visigothic remains, nearCabezo del Griego , described since then asSegobriga . With some clashes with the Spanish Inquistion, related to the regalist wishes of KingCarlos IV of Spain to give to the Bishops jurisdiction on the annulement of marriages, he was also the Honorary Chaplain of KingCharles III of Spain since 1772, aged 36. A Knight and a Prior of the MilitaryOrder of Santiago inUclés ,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" BishopHenry Grégoire ,Abbé Grégoire , (Vého , (Trois-Évêchés), nearLuneville ,France , 4 December 1750 -Paris , 20 May 1831).He ordained as a Bishop of Salamanca, (perhaps), Catholic Bishop of
Maximionopolis ,Palestine , to the Scotch PriestAlexander Cameron , (Braemar ,Aberdeenshire , 28 July 1747 -Bishop of Maximionopolis ,Palestine ] by Tavira 28 October 1798- Vicar Apostolic ofLowland District , aroundEdinburgh ,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/
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