ShortJohnSilver
17th August 2010, 07:19 PM
Everyone knows that Torquemada was an evil Catholic, right? And that he killed thousands of Christians...
But even Wikipedia hints at what was going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada
Torquemada appears to have had Jewish ancestry: the contemporary historian Hernando del Pulgar, writing of Torquemada's uncle Juan de Torquemada, said that his ancestor Alvar Fernández de Torquemada had married a first-generation Jewish conversa (convert). Del Pulgar was a converso himself. Also, according to biographer Thomas Hope's book, Torquemada, Torquemada's grandmother was a conversa.
But even Wikipedia hints at what was going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada
Torquemada appears to have had Jewish ancestry: the contemporary historian Hernando del Pulgar, writing of Torquemada's uncle Juan de Torquemada, said that his ancestor Alvar Fernández de Torquemada had married a first-generation Jewish conversa (convert). Del Pulgar was a converso himself. Also, according to biographer Thomas Hope's book, Torquemada, Torquemada's grandmother was a conversa.