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Peter Nolasco

13th-century Spanish Catholic religious founder and saint (1189–1256)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Peter Nolasco, O. de M. was a Catholic nobleman known for founding the Royal and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy of the Redemption of the Captives with approval by Pope Gregory IX on 17 January 1235.

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“Peter Nolasco” enters the record as 13th-century Spanish Catholic religious founder and saint (1189–1256). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peter, Nolasco and 13th-century can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1235—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peter, Nolasco and 13th-century.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1235.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Nolasco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.