Juan de Quintana
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Though it is unclear if he was born in Vic (Catalonia) or Sariñena (Huesca), Juan de Quintana was the son of Pedro de Quintana alias Navarro, a merchant who descended from the Quintanas, a family of butchers from the town of Vic, in the Principality of Catalonia. This family had apparently taken the name from a square called La Quintana, where butchers used to work in the same town. Pedro Quintana moved to the village of Sariñena in the last quarter of the 15th century, and Juan had at least two brothers, Sebastián and Pedro Quintana.[1]
Education and first royal assignments
By 1495 Juan Quintana was already a student, most likely in the Studium Generale of Arts in Zaragoza, and he later continued his education at the Sorbonne. During his studies in Paris Juan Quintana interceded in favor of Llulism, along with professors Antonio and Luis Coronel. He later obtained his doctorate in Theology at this university in May 1520. At some point afterwards, and before 1522, Quintana became the Chaplain in King Charles V's retinue, and he started participating as a theologian in special royal assignments, such as the trials against the Protestant Probst and Grapheus.[2] Quintana kept traveling with the royal retinue, and during the 1530s he kept being assigned to take part in additional royal religious decisions, clearly aimed at containing (and also repressing) theological ideas that would not be in agreement with the Catholic faith, which King Charles wanted to be preeminent: in 1525 he participated in the Edict against the Alumbrados, in 1526 in the Edict against the moriscos from Granada, and in 1527 was one of the experts who attended the Conference of Valladolid, in order to judge Erasmus's theological ideas.[3]