NUEVO LEÓN ANCESTORS Safarditas in Tejas Amended 1-9-15, A. Lopez-Cadena, Miami Beach, FL Many Tejanos have roots in Nuevo León, MX, and other parts of northern Mexico. We have not be taught Spanish history about Tejas, New Spain. (From the web and my personal papers). In Brief: The New Kingdom of Nuevo León was founded in 1581 by Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva (1539 – 1595). The capital is now known as Monterrey. Carabajal was born in Mogadouro, Portugal, to Jewish conversos (converts to Catholicism). The Blood Purity Laws (Pureza de sangre), stipulated that Spanish immigrants to the New World be at least three generations of Old Christians. This was lifted in an effort to encourage migration, and Nuevo León was settled by conversos, AKA New Christians. The records are not concise, but it seems the settlements included Tamaulipas, states of Nuevo León and Coahuila, and parts of San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Tejas. Carabajal was named governor of Nuevo Reino de León on May 31, 1579, and sailed on board the Santa Catarina with 100 families, most of them recruited from his own family and his wifes kin. They arrived in Mexico in 1580, and settled Santa Lucía (now Monterrey), and named it the City of León. Carabajal also brought 100 soldiers and 60 married laborers, accompanied by their wives and children. Its assumed that these early colonists were Spanish Jews, who were often referred as Marranos. Carvajal died in prison awaiting trial for practicing Judaism in secret. On December 8, 1596, most of his extended family, including Francisca and her children, Isabel, Catalina, Leonor, and Luis, as well as Manuel Díaz, Beatriz Enríquez, Diego Enríquez, and Manuel de Lucena, a total of nine people, were burned at the stake in Mexico, City. They were tortured for confessions and to give names of relatives. Carvajals nephew also named Luis de Carabajal (the younger) jumped out a window to avoid further torture.[3] Today, Monterrey has Jewish customs, particularly the cuisine (cabrito, and semitas), popular Sephardic family names (like Lopez, Rodriguez, & Garza), and some local festivities. Luis de Carabajal (the younger), left a memoir, letters and account of the inquisition proceedings against his family. References Hammond, George P. and Rey, Apapito, The Rediscovery of New Mexico, 1580-1594, Albuquerque: U of NM Press, 1966, 297. Flint, Richard and Flint, Shirley Cushing, Juan Morlete, Gaspar Castano de Sosa, and the Province of Nuevo León. newmexicohistory.org Powell, Philip Wayne. Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600. Berkeley: U of CA Press, 1952, 197-198. jewishencyclopedia Sources Carl L. Duaine, Caverns of Oblivion, Manchaca, Texas: Packrat, 1971 Hammond, George P. and Rey, Apapito, The Rediscovery of New Mexico, 1580-1594, Albuquerque: U of NM Press, 1966 C. K. Landis, Carabajal the Jew, a Legend of Monterey, Vineland, N. J., 1894. Powell, Philip Wayne. Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600. Berkely: U of CA Press, 1952 Vicente Riva Palacio, El Libro Rojo, Mexico, 1870. Alfonso Toro, La familia Carvajal: Estudio histórico sobre los judíos y la Inquisición de la Nueva España en el siglo XVI (2 vols.), Mexico City: Patria, 1944. Robert S. Weddle, Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500-1685, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cyrus Adler and George Alexander Kohut (1901–1906). Carabajal. Jewish Encyclopedia. External links Historia de Nuevo León by Israel Cavazos (Spanish) Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, by Raúl Cadena Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. Carvajal y de la Cueva, Luis de. Web photo: Spanish Inquisition, torture for confessions.
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