The literary aspects in this book are the social description of characters as Lozana and Rampin, the defense of the Jews ( in a historic moment when an intolerant attitude against them, as well as Muslims, had begun in Spain ; also supported by the theory that makes Francisco Delicado a converso ).

Contemporary documents refer to Rojas as " converso ", but scholarly opinion differs on whether this means that he himself converted from Judaism to Christianity or whether the term implied that he was " de linaje de conversos " – of convert descent.

Calling him a " Spanish-Portuguese ", suspecting and accusing him of his recently proved Jewish converso origin.

Although Servetus declared during his trial in Geneva that his parents were " Christians of ancient race ", and that he never had any communication with Jews, his maternal line actually descended from the Zaportas ( or Çaportas ), a wealthy and socially relevant Jewish converso family from the Barbastro and Monzón areas in Aragon.

It is worth noting that Maria Ortiz Cota, the mother of ruthless Governor Pedrarias or Pedro Arias, was the daughter of " converso " Toledo family member and Royal Treasurer Alonso Cota, deceased 1468, married to a certain Teresa Ortiz, their children being known however as " Ortiz Cota " at the " Portuguese family style ", whereby in Spanish succession style would have been known as " Cota Ortiz " and in the rest of European countries as " Cota " only.

In Mexico, he married Beatriz de Estrada, called the Saint ( la Santa ), sister of Leonor de Estrada, ancestor of the de Alvarado family and daughter of Treasurer and Governor Alonso de Estrada y Hidalgo, Lord of Picón, and wife Marina Flores Gutiérrez de la Caballería, from a converso Jewish family .< ref >

The mob dragged converso victims from their houses and killed some.

As a result, several prominent converso men were deposed from office, in obedience to a new statute.

According to the introduction to his work and additional details that have accrued since its publication, Flamel was the most accomplished of the European alchemists, and had learned his art from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela.

He was the nephew of a celebrated theologian and cardinal, Juan de Torquemada, who himself was a descendant of a converso ( someone who had converted to Christianity from Islam or Judaism ).

The defendant explained that five years earlier ( 1485 ) he had secretly returned to the Jewish faith, encouraged by another converso, Juan de Ocaña, who was also from La Guardia and a Jew from the nearby locality of Tembleque, named Franco.

* Rodrigo Lopez, a converso who fled from Portugal to England and became physician to Queen Elizabeth I.

The death of the New Governor, a change of position decided in Spain, Lope de Sosa, in 1520 before even landing and taking possession, the expeditions with military garrisons after from Panamá and Nata, to reduce the " disorders " promoted by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a. k. a. Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, the diversion from New Governor of Castilla del Oro since 1526, now, more or less Panamá, Pedro de los Ríos, getting a nomination for himself as a new Governor of Nicaragua in 1527 tell us about the utmost energy of this Spanish " converso " family background man, already approaching his nineties.

The latter's fear of " crypto-Jews " might derive from his uncle's defense of the converso community of Toledo, which was attacked by the " Old Christian " majority in the period around 1450.

Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula ( in particular the converso or Marrano groups ) and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on.

When his father-in-law, Alvaro de Montalbán, was accused of secretly returning to Judaism in 1525, the Inquisition refused to allow Rojas to act as defending lawyer, but this was evidently on account of Rojas's status as a converso rather than from any suspicion that he might be secretly practising Judaism.

Most famous were the heated correspondences sent between Bodo Eleazar, a former deacon who had converted to Judaism in 838, and the converso Bishop of Córdoba Paulus Albarus.

Includes e converso (" vice versa ") in the link captions to clarify that links are bidirectional.

The government decreed that no converso should thenceforth live in Córdoba or its vicinity, nor should one ever again hold public office, as if that meant the people would never find a reason to riot.

It had existed in the Kingdom of Aragon for some two centuries but not in Castile until the year 1480 when the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, requested its establishment throughout Spain with the converso and Dominican friar, Tomás de Torquemada, as its first Inquisitor General.

The preferred terms are ' anusim ' ( Hebrew for " forced "); or ' conversos ' or ' conversas ' ( Spanish ) for men and woman respectively ( singular ' converso ' and ' conversa ').

Torquemada appears to have had Jewish ancestry: the contemporary historian Hernando del Pulgar ( himself a converso ) recorded that Torquemada's uncle, Juan de Torquemada, had an ancestor Alvar Fernández de Torquemada married to a first-generation Jewish conversa:

St. John was born by the name of Juan de Yepes Álvarez into a Jewish converso family in a small community near Ávila.

Jehudà Cresques (, 1360-1410 ), also known as Jafudà Cresques, Jaume Riba, and Cresques lo Juheu (" Cresques the Jew "), was a converso cartographer in the early 15th century.

Over time by scholars, the latter were called Moriscos, and the voice marrano was only to designate the Jews of converso descent.

To stop the excesses, the highly respected D. Alonso Fernandez de Aguilar, whose wife was a member of the converso family of Pacheco, together with his brother D. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (" El Gran Capitán "), and a troop of soldiers, hastened to protect the New Christians.

At Carmona, every converso was killed.

Some people would argue that the first Jew was Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, a Spanish conquistador and converso, who first set foot in what is now Texas in 1554.

In June 1490, a roving carder, a converso named Benito Garcia, aged 60, a native of the town of La Guardia, was stopped in Astorga in the province of León.

In place of a Rabbi, on his second visit the doctor was accompanied by a converso Friar, Alonso Enriquez, disguised as a Rabbi and calling himself Abrahán.

From 1769 to 1776 the Franciscan missionary Francisco Garcés of converso morisco descent, was exploring Sonora, Baja California, California, Arizona, and Nevada.

The apostasy of these conversos provoked the indignation of some Jews in Spain and it was made illegal to call a converso by the epithet tornadizo ( renegade ).

Saint John of Ávila was born in Almodóvar del Campo of a wealthy and pious family of Jewish converso descent.

He was born at Écija and was of Jewish converso descent.

Bartolomé de Torres Naharro ( c. 1485, Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Extremadura – c. 1530 ) was a Spanish dramatist and Leonese language writer of Jewish converso descent.

He was of Jewish converso descent.

On November 16, 1491 an auto-da-fé held outside of Ávila concluded the case with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects who confessed to the crime under torture.

Among the executed were Benito Garcia, the converso who initially confessed to the murder.

While pure blood ( so-called limpieza de sangre ) would come to be placed at a premium, particularly among the nobility, in a 15th-century defense of conversos, Bishop Lope de Barrientos would list what Roth calls " a veritable ' Who's Who ' of Spanish nobility " as having converso members or being of converso descent.

Thereafter the converso community of new Christian converts inherited the condition of scapegoat endured by their forebears.

* 1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.

However the Crowns, with the techniques of the Spanish Inquisition, killed, imprisoned, or expelled the converso " Moriscos " and Marranos.

* November 16 – An auto-da-fé held in Brasero de la Dehesa ( outside Ávila ) concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.

In 1263, James presided over a debate in Barcelona between the Jewish rabbi Nahmanides and Pablo Christiani, a prominent converso.

Instigated by two canons, Juan Alfonso and Pedro Lopez Galvez, the mob plundered and burned the houses of Alonso Cota, a wealthy converso and tax-farmer.

D. Juan Pacheco, a converso, led the attacks.