Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Hispania Judaica Bulletin
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (2008) 83-103
Keywords:
Furtado, Pedro
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Inquisition
;
Jews
Abstract:
An independent Inquisitorial tribunal operated in the city of Lamego between 1541-48, strongly affecting the New Christian community of that city, and causing the flight or imprisonment of many of its members. In 1541, the Inquisition imprisoned the physician and leader of the community, Pedro Furtado, along with his wife and members of his extended family, on the charge of Judaizing. He appealed to the Vatican for help through intermediaries; subsequently, a papal brief of Pope Paul III exempted Furtado and his family from the jurisdiction of the Lamego tribunal, transferring them to the jurisdiction of the then Bishop of Évora, Henrique, the brother of King João III. In 1543, Furtado and his family were no longer in Lamego. Notes that this outcome was probably the result of pressure on the Vatican on behalf of the Furtados exercised by a strong influential network of New Christians operating in Rome and in Antwerp, to which Furtado was connected. In 1545 Furtado was in Rome, acting as an agent of that network.
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