Gracia (archaic Portuguese and Spanish for the Hebrew name Hannah). A/k/a, Beatrice de Luna Micas, was one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. She married into the eminent international banking and finance company known as the House of Mendes|Benvenisti. She was the aunt and business partner of Joseph Nasi, who became a prominent figure in the politics of the Ottoman Empire. She also developed an escape network that saved hundreds of Conversos forcibly converted Jews) from the Inquisition.
Dona Beatrice de Luna Gracia Micas Nasi was the daughter of Agostinho Micas (Miques) (in Hebrew Shemuel Nasi), the royal physician who taught medicine at the University of Lisbon. The family was from Aragon Spain and was forcibly converted Jews known as Conversos (also called Crypto-Jews, Marranos and Secret Jews). While still Jewish, they had fled to Portugal when the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, expelled the Jews in 1492. Five years later, in 1497, they were forcibly converted to Catholicism along with all the other Jews in Portugal at that time.
Dona Beatrice de Luna Gracia Micas Nasi was the daughter of Agostinho Micas (Miques) (in Hebrew Shemuel Nasi), the royal physician who taught medicine at the University of Lisbon. The family was from Aragon Spain and was forcibly converted Jews known as Conversos (also called Crypto-Jews, Marranos and Secret Jews). While still Jewish, they had fled to Portugal when the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, expelled the Jews in 1492. Five years later, in 1497, they were forcibly converted to Catholicism along with all the other Jews in Portugal at that time.
Gracia (archaic Portuguese and Spanish for the Hebrew name Hannah). A/k/a, Beatrice de Luna Micas, was one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. She married into the eminent international banking and finance company known as the House of Mendes|Benvenisti. She was the aunt and business partner of Joseph Nasi, who became a prominent figure in the politics of the Ottoman Empire. She also developed an escape network that saved hundreds of Conversos forcibly converted Jews) from the Inquisition.
Dona Beatrice de Luna Gracia Micas Nasi was the daughter of Agostinho Micas (Miques) (in Hebrew Shemuel Nasi), the royal physician who taught medicine at the University of Lisbon. The family was from Aragon Spain and was forcibly converted Jews known as Conversos (also called Crypto-Jews, Marranos and Secret Jews). While still Jewish, they had fled to Portugal when the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, expelled the Jews in 1492. Five years later, in 1497, they were forcibly converted to Catholicism along with all the other Jews in Portugal at that time.
Dona Beatrice de Luna Gracia Micas Nasi was the daughter of Agostinho Micas (Miques) (in Hebrew Shemuel Nasi), the royal physician who taught medicine at the University of Lisbon. The family was from Aragon Spain and was forcibly converted Jews known as Conversos (also called Crypto-Jews, Marranos and Secret Jews). While still Jewish, they had fled to Portugal when the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, expelled the Jews in 1492. Five years later, in 1497, they were forcibly converted to Catholicism along with all the other Jews in Portugal at that time.
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