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The Spanish Inquisition did not begin in Spain.
It began centuries earlier—with heresy trials, crusades, forced conversions, and the slow construction of a system designed to control belief.

In this documentary-style video, we trace the long and often misunderstood origins of the Spanish Inquisition, starting not in 1478—but in 10th-century Bulgaria, with the rise of Bogomil dualism, the appearance of Cathars in medieval France and Italy, and the Church’s gradual shift from sporadic repression to institutionalized investigation.

We follow the path from:

Early anti-heresy laws

The Albigensian Crusade

The birth of papal inquisitions

The fall of Montségur (1244)

Anti-Jewish violence, expulsions, and forced conversions across Europe

And finally, the creation of a crown-controlled Spanish Inquisition under Ferdinand and Isabella

This video also explores:

Why Cathars did not directly cause the Spanish Inquisition—but made it possible

How conversos became the central obsession of Iberian religious courts

The role of the Suprema, Torquemada, and royal centralization

The Alhambra Decree of 1492 and its unintended consequences

The transformation of the Inquisition from terror to bureaucratic censorship

Its final abolition in 1834, and why its mentality outlived the institution itself

This is not a sensational retelling—but a historically grounded reconstruction, drawing on academic scholarship, primary sources, and modern historians.

If you’re interested in medieval history, religious power, heresy, state control, or how fear becomes policy—this story explains how Europe built one of history’s most enduring machines of repression.

Chapters and Timeline

00:00 – The Inquisition did NOT begin in Spain
00:30 – Bogomils & the roots of dualist heresy
01:05 – Who were the Cathars?
01:45 – Why the Church saw Cathars as dangerous
02:25 – Ad abolendam (1184): repression becomes law
03:00 – Crusades fail, institutions replace violence
03:40 – Birth of papal inquisitions (1231)
04:20 – Montségur and symbolic terror (1244)
04:40 – Anti-Jewish violence, expulsions & forced conversion
05:20 – From medieval heresy to Spanish obsession
06:30 – 1391 riots & the rise of conversos
08:10 – 1478: Birth of the Spanish Inquisition
10:30 – Torquemada, the Suprema & centralization
13:00 – 1492: Alhambra Decree explained
16:00 – From terror to bureaucracy
18:30 – Decline, abolition & final execution (1826)
20:00 – Why the Inquisition still matters