Carranza

Carranza, BARTHOLOMÆUS DE, born in 1503, at Miranda, in Navarre, entered the Dominican order, became professor of Theology at Valladolid, and in 1554 accompanied Philip II. to England, where he was confessor to Queen Mary, and where his zealous efforts to re-establish Catholicism gained him the confidence of Philip and the archbishopric of Toledo, the richest in Spain. Here, however, he was accused of heresy, and imprisoned by the Inquisition in 1559. In 1567 he was removed to Rome, and confined in the castle of St Angelo. He died a few days after his release, 2d May 1576.