Baltasar Tomás Carbonell y Sánchez, O.P. (6 January 1621 – 5 April 1692)[1][2][3] was a Spanish friar of the Dominican Order. He served as royal confessor to King Charles II of Spain twice: from 1676 to 1678[4] and from 1682 to 1686.[1][5] He was also the Bishop of Sigüenza from 1677 until his death in 1692.[2][3]


Tomás Carbonell

Bishop of Sigüenza
ChurchRoman Catholic
In office1677–1692
PredecessorPedro de Godoy
SuccessorJuan Grande Santos de San Pedro
Orders
Consecration26 September 1677
Personal details
Born(1621-01-06)6 January 1621
Died5 April 1692(1692-04-05) (aged 71)

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  1. ^ a b Martínez Peñas, Leandro (2007). El confesor del rey en el Antiguo Régimen (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Complutense. p. 1013. ISBN 9788474918519.
  2. ^ a b Reluz, Thomas (1695). Vida, y virtudes del illustrísimo señor don fray Thomas Carbonel, obispo, que fue de Sigüenza, de la sagrada orden de nuestro padre Sancto Domingo (in Spanish). Madrid: La viuda de D. Francisco Nieto. pp. 2 and 420–421.
  3. ^ a b Cheney, David M. (2015-11-11). "Bishop Baltasar Tomás Carbonell y Sánchez". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  4. ^ Martínez Peñas, Leandro (2007). El confesor del rey en el Antiguo Régimen (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Complutense. pp. 734, n. 2254. ISBN 9788474918519.
  5. ^ Reinhardt, Nicole (2016). Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 244. ISBN 9780198703686.