Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Maguén - Escudo
Angaben zur Quelle:
80 (1991) 31-45; 81: 44-58
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews
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Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Jews
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Jews History
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Jews
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Jews
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Jews
Abstract:
Describes, on the basis of Alfonso de Palencia's 15th-century chronicle, the settlement of Gibraltar by Spanish Conversos between 1474-76. After the wave of massacres of 1391, growing numbers of Conversos were subject to popular envy, hostility, and accusations of Judaizing, especially in Andalusia. The anti-Converso pogroms in Toledo (1467) and Cordoba (1473) led to the creation of a self-defense force of 5,000 men in Sevilla, and negotiations over Gibraltar with the Duke of Medina Sidonia. In exchange for a huge tribute, the Duke offered to expel the Old Christian population of the Rock, which was given in 1474 for settlement and shelter to refuge-seeking Conversos from Andalusia, under the military and civil command of Converso Pedro de Herrera. The Duke, not trusting the Conversos, expelled them in 1476, after he had levied heavy taxes on Sevilla to pay for the Converso garrison. Most of those expelled returned to Cordoba and other cities, only to fall prey to the Inquisition. Includes excerpts from Alonso de Palencia's Latin chronicle.
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