Spanish for "converted one", converso (feminine conversa) referred to Jews or Muslims or the descendants of Jews or Muslims who had converted, sometimes unwillingly, to Catholicism in Spain, particularly during the 1300s and 1400s. A similar but more pejorative term, marrano, referred to converted Jews alone. Conversos were often suspected of preserving their ancestral rites in secret and were an especial target of the Spanish Inquisition, but they contributed disproportionately to cultural and political life in Spain and included Saint Teresa of Avila and, it was alleged, the Grand Inquisitor Tom�s de Torquemada himself.
Contains many genealogical family trees of prominent conversos, including Silva, Ayala, Franco, Cedillo, Santo Domingo, Cota, Sancho Sanchez de Toledo, Niño, Noez, Tejares, Husillo, Cisneros, Herrera, Ramirez, García de Toledo (La Gallinería), Avalos, Fenolete, Añovar, Sedeño y Mesa, Canales, Ortiz de Torres, Alcocer, Ceballaos, Nuñez, etc.
Conversos, Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
Much information about converso families and lists of converso names.
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