I dunno, but if I ever need a bodyguard I'm looking them up :)

The Inquisition was definitively abolished on July 15, 1834, by a Royal Decree signed by regent Maria Cristina de Borbon, a liberal queen, during the minority of Isabel II (Wiki.) But for almost a century, the Spanish Inquisition had been a toothless dog, primarily responsible for censorship, and later, not even that.

The Catholic Church did. The Council of Trent. +5 Chainsaw

Queen Isabella II in 1834. But what most people CALL the Spanish Inquisition is another matter. Protestants were the first to demonize the Spanish Inquisition - laying the persecutions and mass murders of Flemish and Dutch Protestants in the 1500s at its door. But in fact the Spanish Inquisition itself had nothing to do with these atrocities, and no public Protestant was ever tried by the Inquisition. And in fact, only a few officially Catholic Spanish notables suspected of being secret Protestants (in fact they were just liberals) were tried by the Inquisition on a charge of being Protestant heretics. Jews and Secularists focus on the waves of Spanish Antisemitism in the 1400s and their subsequent wave against the Conversos (Jews who had converted to Christianity to avoid persecution or the expulsion of 1492), peaks in 1530 and 1588. The actual Spanish Inquisition was created to deal with the Conversos - to make inquiry into allegations of their false professions of faith and continued Jewish practices in secret - but never laid a finger on a professing Jew. (The Crown and the mob did, but not the Inquisition.) No one "put a stop" to these outbreaks of extreme Antisemitism (unless you consider the expulsion of 1492 as "putting an end to them"). The waves of anti-Converso hysteria also came and went without anyone putting a stop to them. But WHY is this question in the "Dark Ages" section? The Dark Ages were 500-1000 years earlier. The Spanish Inquisition was in the Reformation/Age of Exploration and the dawn of the Scientific Revolution.

At first, I thought it said spinach!