Juan de Quintana was a Franciscan

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 friar and confessor

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 to the Habsburg

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 emperor Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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Juan de Quintana was a student of Eramus and a student at the Sorbonne

Collège de Sorbonne

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 receiving his doctorate

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 there. He was a member of the Cortès d’Aragon, the parliament or advisory council for the King of Aragon

Kingdom of Aragon

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, and a member of the faculty at the liberal arts school in Zaragoza which later became the first college of the University of Zaragoza

University of Zaragoza

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. It was in Zaragoza that Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus

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 first became his secretary (1526–1527 and 1529–1530). In 1530, Juan de Quintana became the confessor, and advisor to, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...

. Juan de Quintana remained with the imperial court until his death in 1534.

Juan de Quintana is most noted for his influence on Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation...

. Under his tutelage, Michael Servetus was exposed not only to the works of Eramus, but to the full text of the Bible

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 including Hebrew

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 sources, and the tracts of Martin Luther

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. In 1530 Juan de Quintana provided Michael Servetus with a "ring-side seat" on papal pomp when Pope Clement VII

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 crowned Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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 in Bologna

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