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The conversos in Ancona faced traumatic emotional damage after the pope imprisoned 102 conversos who refused to reside in the ghetto and wear badges to distinguish themselves. In 1588, when the duke granted a charter of residence in return for the conversos building up the city's economy, they refused, due to accumulated scepticism.
Susona suffered great guilt for having betrayed her father and hid herself in a convent. [1] On the death of Diego Susón, she requested her head to be hung from the door of her house in the Barrio Santa Cruz Seville, to remind people of her betrayal. [1] However, the head decomposed and was replaced by an oil lamp.
Catholics then began to accuse—with or without substantiation—the conversos of secretly maintaining Jewish practices, [3] and thus undermining the newly united kingdom's nascent national identity, ultimately leading to their expulsion by royal decree of the "Catholic Monarchs" Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile and León in 1492.
[14] [38] In the Bible, Trashish is mentioned in the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, I Kings, Jonah and Romans; In generally describing Tyre's empire from west to east, Tarshish is listed first (Ezekiel 27.12–14), and in Jonah 1.3 it is the place to which Jonah sought to flee from the L ORD; evidently it represents the westernmost place to which ...
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Juan de Torquemada was born in Valladolid, Spain. [1] " There is a general historical consensus that the family were former Jews". [2] Though those converso origins are very often stated without providing any source, [3] they are "based primarily on Hernando del Pulgar’s statement that Juan de Torquemada’s abuelos were converts from the Jewish faith". [2]
Pages in category "History of the conversos" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alhambra Decree;
John of Seville (Latin: Johannes Hispalensis or Johannes Hispaniensis) (fl. 1133-53) was one of the main translators from Arabic into Castilian in partnership with Dominicus Gundissalinus during the early days of the Toledo School of Translators. John of Seville translated a litany of Arabic astrological works in addition to being credited with ...