Francisco de Quiñones, (Latin: Franciscus Cardinalis Quignonius) (also Francisco de los Ángeles) (ca. 1475 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.
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Early life
He was the son of Diego Fernandez de Quiñones, Count of Luna and was educated as a page of Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. At the age of sixteen he entered the Order of Friars Minor at the friary of St. Mary of the Angels in Alcalá de Henares, taking the religious name Francis of the Angels (1498).
Having completed his studies, he successively discharged various important offices of his Order as Custos, Commissary General, and Vicar General of the Observant branch of the Order. In 1521 he had obtained special permission and faculties from Pope Leo X to go to the missions in the Americas, together with Jean Glapion, confessor of Emperor Charles V. Glapion died in the same year, however, and Quiñones was elected Commissary General (1521–23) of the Franciscans north of the Alps ('Ultramontanes'). At the General Chapter of the Order held in Burgos in 1523, he was elected its Minister General, serving in the office until 1527.