ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the body in the Roman tomb is in fact not that of the supposedly Portuguese cardinal and demonstrates that the supposedly Portuguese cardinal was not Portuguese at all. It offers some suggestions as to the real identity of the tenant of that Roman tomb and the reasons for his being there. In the 1240s the Castilian cardinal Gil Torres seems to have exercised a measure of control over promotions to the place. As to the cardinal's present whereabouts, there is sufficient reason to believe that he lies buried beneath the rubble to which the cloister of the old cathedral of Salamanca was reduced in and after 1785, in accordance with what had been reported by Thomas ab Incarnatione shortly before that date. After Cardinal Gil's death in 1254, however, admission to this Ecole normale superieure of its time and place seems to have been more or less in the gift of the Castilian king.
