Hernando de Talavera

Hernando de Talavera (1428-1507) was a prominent political and religious figure in Spain during the period of the country's unification and explusion of Muslim rule. He was Queen Isabella I of Castile's confessor, and eventually rose to the office of Archbishop of Granada. He appears to have been descended from Jewish converts, a fact which was used against him in his twilight years by rivals in the Spanish Inquisition. He was imprisoned the year following Isabella's death in 1505, until the pope ordered his release. He died in 1507.

It has been speculated that Talavera was part of the committee that initially rejected Christopher Columbus's proposal to reach Asia by sailing west.