Antiquity
Sisebut (613)
613-694·Espagne wisigothique
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baptism or expulsion; Egica (694): enslavement of all Jews
After the conversion of the Visigoths to Catholicism, the Spanish monarchy legislated relentlessly against the Jewish community, and its laws were taken up by the Councils of Toledo, which ratified them.
Sisebut opened the series by imposing baptism or exile. The Fourth Council of Toledo, presided over by Isidore of Seville, condemned the principle of forced conversion while deciding that baptisms already received were irrevocable — a position that would set a precedent for centuries. There followed the prohibition of public office, the requirement of oaths of orthodoxy, and the surveillance of converts by the clergy.
The final degree was reached under Égica: the Seventeenth Council of Toledo declared the Jews of the kingdom reduced to servitude, their property confiscated and their children taken from them at seven years of age to be raised as Christians. The Muslim conquest, a few years later, brought this regime to an end.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Forced conversion
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Espagne
*Liber Iudiciorum* (loi wisigothique) ; actes des conciles de Tolède ; Isidore de Séville.