Gil de Torres

Gil Torres (died 11 November 1254) was a Leonese cleric and the cardinal-deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano from 1216 until his death.

Gil was a native of Zamora. Nothing is known of his life before 1206, when he is recorded among the canons of the cathedral of Burgos. (He appears at the time with the honorific don, as in domnus Egidius (in Latin).)

Gil was named to the college of cardinals with the titulus of Santi Cosma e Damiano by Pope Honorius III in December 1216. In April 1218, King Afonso II of Portugal claimed him as a friend. He is especially associated with interventionist policy of Pope Innocent IV regarding papal provision. (There is ample evidence in the surviving documentation that Gil used this system to benefit his countrymen and relations, although it is possible, given his advanced age, that he was being taken advantage of by persons acting in his stead.) His executor was Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini.