Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) was a Franciscan friar who became Queen Isabella I's confessor in 1492 and Archbishop of Toledo in 1495, the richest see in Spain. He reformed the religious orders, founded the University of Alcalá in 1499, and financed the Complutensian Polyglot Bible.

Made cardinal and Grand Inquisitor in 1507, he led the 1509 conquest of Oran in North Africa. He twice governed Castile as regent, in 1506–1507 and after Ferdinand II's death in 1516, and died at Roa in November 1517 as Charles I arrived from Flanders.