Language:
French
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
XVIIe Siècle
Angaben zur Quelle:
58,2 (2006) 277-299
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Crypto-Jews
Abstract:
In 1632 the Spanish Inquisitor Juan Bautista de Villadiego was sent to France to break up the flourishing economic network of the Judeo-Portuguese diaspora and denounce Judaizers among Iberian Conversos in France. He arrived in Rouen in January 1633; in February he was arrested and imprisoned for several months based on information of Conversos in Rouen delivered to the authorities who accused him of spying. Discusses rivalries, but also cooperation between Catholic and Judaizing Conversos in Rouen. Villadiego denounced some Judaizers to the local Parliament, his arrestor, causing them to flee; but others turned to the King, accusing Villadiego of "lèse-majesté". He was transferred to a state prison, and those previously condemned for Judaizing were absolved. Their confiscated goods were also returned to them, but they were excluded from the annual assembly of local merchants. Villadiego was cleared of charges and he returned to Spain in 1634, accompanied by ca. 70 exiled devoutly Catholic Conversos. Their testimonies about the situation among the Conversos in the diaspora helped reactivate the Spanish Inquisition.
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