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15th–17th centuries

Trial of the « Holy Child of La Guardia »

1490-1491·Tolède, Ávila

Toll
8

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

Jews and conversos tortured, tried in Ávila and burned, the sentence serving as argument for the expulsion decree

Le procès dit du « Saint enfant de La Guardia » réunit des Juifs et des conversos accusés d'avoir crucifié un enfant et d'avoir volé une hostie pour un maléfice destiné à faire mourir les chrétiens.

Aucun enfant ne fut jamais porté disparu, aucun corps ne fut retrouvé, et les aveux se contredisaient. Les accusés furent jugés à Ávila et brûlés. La sentence, imprimée et diffusée, servit d'argument aux Rois Catholiques : le décret d'expulsion, signé quelques mois plus tard, invoque le danger que les Juifs feraient courir à la foi des convertis. Un procès fabriqué fonda la décision.

Period :
15th–17th centuries
Type :
Trials and executions
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Espagne
Sources

Actes du procès de La Guardia ; Baer, History of the Jews in Christian Spain.

At the same place10

  1. 681-694Councils XII and XVIItoll not established
  2. 1109Riot at the death of Alphonse VIinconnu
  3. 1212Massacre of the Jewish quarter by foreign crusaders who came to fight at Las Navas de Tolosa; the Castilian knights put an end to itinconnu
  4. 1355Castilian civil war (Henry of Trastamare)~1 200
  5. 1369Siege of Toledo during the Civil Warinconnu
  6. juin 13911391 Massacresinconnu
  7. 1449Anti-converso riot by Pero Sarmientotoll not established
  8. 1467Anti-converso riottoll not established
  9. 1486Autos-da-fé of the Toledo Inquisitiondizaines d'exécutions
  10. 1488Auto-da-fédizaines

In the same country99

  1. v. 300-306Council of Elviretoll not established
  2. 418Forced conversion of the community (letter of Severus)toll not established
  3. 613-694Sisebut (613)toll not established
  4. 629-633Dagobert I orders the baptism or expulsion of the Jews of the kingdom (Fredegar); the Fourth Council of Toledo forbids forcing baptism but retains already baptized childrentoll not established
  5. 694XVIIth Council of Toledotoute la communauté
  6. 1013Berber plunder of the city, Jews killed and driven outinconnu
  7. 1063French knights sent to fight at Barbastro attacked communities on the way; Pope Alexander II wrote to the bishops of Spain to forbid itinconnu
  8. 1066Assassination of vizier Joseph ibn Nagrela, massacre of the community~1 500 familles / ~4 000

And 91 more in the catalogue.

Event 652 of 2483, in chronological order · 15th–17th centuries: 278 events in the catalogue

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