Valladolid Conference of 1527
From Textus Receptus
This should not be confused with the 'Valladolid controversy' , which in 1550 concerned the status of the American Indians. The Valladolid conference was a theological meeting held at the University of Valladolid, in Spain, 1527. It took place over sixteen sessions, with nearly thirty speakers, with the aim of resolving the very lively controversy aroused by the reception of Erasmian ideas in Spain and the criticism of which they were the subject of a large part of the regular clergy, especially Dominicans and Franciscans.
Process
An essential document presented at the meeting was a notebook divided into seventeen chapters dealing with the alleged doctrinal errors of Erasmus, prepared at the request of the inquisitor general Alonso de Manrique, himself an erasmist. The theologians of the School of Salamanca, led by Francisco de Vitoria, and others like Pedro Margallo and Fernando de Préjano (of the University of Valladolid) led the charge, those of the University of Alcalá defended. In anticipation of the probable condemnation of erasmism, the inquisitor Manrique suspended the sessions, without allowing the conference to reach a conclusion.
Despite this fact, a letter written by Alfonso de Valdés , a notorious erasmist and adviser to King Charles I, on behalf of the latter, explicitly authorized the distribution of Erasmus's works throughout Spain and served subsequently as proof to the owners of Erasmus books accused of heresy to prove that his writings had "been examined by a commission of theologians assembled expressly in Valladolid and who found nothing heretical about it".
