Francisco de Quiñones

1482 in Kingdom of León – 5 November 1540 in Veroli, Papal States) was a Spanish Franciscan friar and later cardinal who was responsible for some reforms in the Catholic Church in Spain.

Quiñones was sent to the emperor for this purpose on three occasions, and his efforts were crowned with success when Pope Clement was freed (December, 1527), subsequently the Treaties of Barcelona (1528) and Cambrai (1529) were signed.

As a cardinal, Quiñones always occupied a distinguished position in the Sacred College and closely followed the movement of the Reformation in Germany.

When Pope Paul III contemplated assembling a general Council at Mantua, in 1536 he sent Quiñones to Emperor Ferdinand I, King of the Romans and of Hungary, to promote the idea.

He died in 1540 at Veroli and his body was brought from there to Rome and buried in his titular church, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, in a tomb which he himself had had prepared.