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The vast majority of conversos remained in Spain and Portugal, and their descendants, who number in the millions, live in both of these countries. [ citation needed ] 100,000-300,000 Jews did leave Spain after 1492 (estimates vary) and settled in different parts of Europe and the Maghreb, while some migrated as far as the Indian subcontinent ...
[1] However, Susona feared the direction the conspiracy was unfolding, she told everything to her young husband Christian. Christian went to the chief assistant of the city of Seville, don Diego de Merlo, [1] to inform him of what Susona had told him. Diego de Merlo investigated the allegations and arrested all participants, who were condemned ...
1.5 Conversos and the Inquisition. 2 Expulsion. Toggle Expulsion subsection. ... In Seville before the revolts of 1391, there were about 500 Jewish families ...
June 6 – Massacre of 1391: Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in Seville, Spain. [1] Many thousands of Jews are massacred, and the violence spreads throughout Spain and Portugal, especially to Toledo, Barcelona and Mallorca.
A converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu]; feminine form conversa), "convert" (from Latin conversus 'converted, turned around'), was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
Fray Alonso de Ojeda, a Dominican friar from Seville, convinced Queen Isabella of the existence of Crypto-Judaism among Andalusian conversos [46] during her stay in Seville between 1477 and 1478. [ a ] [ 47 ] A report, produced by Pedro González de Mendoza , Archbishop of Seville, and by the Segovian Dominican Tomás de Torquemada —of ...
On 6 June the mob attacked the Judería of Seville from all sides and killed 4000 Jews; the rest submitted to baptism as the only means of escaping death." [99] "At this time Seville is said to have contained 7000 Jewish families. Of the three large synagogues existing in the city two were transformed into churches.
The conversos of Seville and other cities of Castile, and especially of Aragon, bitterly opposed the Spanish Inquisition established in 1478. They rendered considerable service to the king, and held high legal, financial, and military positions.