Jewish Grandmother of Ferdinand?
mond...@mail.utexas.edu
Does anyone have any information on this grandmother of King Ferdinand?
(I received this on another List, but want to know)
Francesca Sutton
From: YTP...@prodigy.com (COL HARRY E STEIN)
I am aware of two sephardic families in Spain that are related to the
Kings of Judah and Israel. There may be more of course. The family
names are ABRAVANEL and IBN YAHYA. (There are spelling variations to
both names) I research the family ABRAVANEL. I have found reference
to two ABRAVANEL sons marrying into Spanish royalty around 1391.
Unfortunately, I cannot identify the names of the young men, nor
their brides. The grandmother of King Ferdinand was reportedly
Jewish. He had her dug up and the body burned.
do...@pub2.lncc.br
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> Does anyone have any information on this grandmother of King Ferdinand?
> (I received this on another List, but want to know)
> Francesca Sutton
I've long heard about that. Fernando de Aragon was the son of Joana
Henriques, daughter of the First Admiral of Castille; male line goes up
to Henrique II de Trastamara, with one illegitimacy. Supposedly the Lord
Admiral married the daughter of a wealthy Jew (or better a converso) from
Toledo. I could never find his name.
>
> From: YTP...@prodigy.com (COL HARRY E STEIN)
> I am aware of two sephardic families in Spain that are related to the
> Kings of Judah and Israel.
That's not true, for sure. there is much controversy on the topic but as
far as I can tell Spanish and Portuguese Jews are in fact Phoenicians.
(My wife comes from a very old Portuguese family with Sephardic roots,
the Tourinhos - ``little bull,'' in Portuguese, but actually a corruption
of `people from the Torah. There is a cousin of hers who's taking a close
look at thge family pedigree, padding it up with primary sources, and I
see nothing that contradicts such a hypothesis on the origin of the
Iberian Jews.)
> There may be more of course. The family
> names are ABRAVANEL and IBN YAHYA. (There are spelling variations to
> both names) I research the family ABRAVANEL. I have found reference
> to two ABRAVANEL sons marrying into Spanish royalty around 1391.
Much research has been done on them. Name translates as ``little
Abraham.'' Authentic pedigree goes as far as the late 13th century. But I
have never seen any immediate connection with Spanish or Portuguese
royalty, but for the fact that they were the kingdom's treasurers.
> Unfortunately, I cannot identify the names of the young men, nor
> their brides. The grandmother of King Ferdinand was reportedly
> Jewish. He had her dug up and the body burned.
I don't believe it. Chico Doria
>
>
Xavier
>Does anyone have any information on this grandmother of King Ferdinand?
>(I received this on another List, but want to know)
>Francesca Sutton
It seems difficult :
- the mother of his father was Eleonor de Castilla-Albuquerque, daughter of
Sancho de Albuquerque and Beatrix of Portugal
- the mother of his mother was Ines de Ayala, Senora de Arroyo Molinos and
daughter of Fadrique, Almirante de Castilla.
But I don't know, for the moment, the name of the wife of Fadrique,
grand-grandmother of Fernando. Was she Jewish ?
About Fernando I recommand the book "Yo, Fernando el Catolico" by Jose
Antonio Vaca de Osma published in 1995 by Planeta.
Frank H. Johansen
mond...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> Does anyone have any information on this grandmother of King Ferdinand?
> (I received this on another List, but want to know)
> Francesca Sutton
>
> From: YTP...@prodigy.com (COL HARRY E STEIN)
> I am aware of two sephardic families in Spain that are related to the
> Kings of Judah and Israel. There may be more of course. The family
> names are ABRAVANEL and IBN YAHYA. (There are spelling variations to
> both names) I research the family ABRAVANEL. I have found reference
> to two ABRAVANEL sons marrying into Spanish royalty around 1391.
> Unfortunately, I cannot identify the names of the young men, nor
> their brides. The grandmother of King Ferdinand was reportedly
> Jewish. He had her dug up and the body burned.
His grandparents were:
-King Fernando I of Aragon and Sicily
-Leonor Urraca de Castilla, Countess of Albuquerque
-Fadrique Enriquez, Admiral of Castilla, Count of Melgar y Rueda
-Mariana Ayala de Cordoba, Lady of Casarubios
Which one was the jewish one, Mariana?
FHJ
William Addams Reitwiesner
mond...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
>Does anyone have any information on this grandmother of King Ferdinand?
>(I received this on another List, but want to know)
>Francesca Sutton
>
>From: YTP...@prodigy.com (COL HARRY E STEIN)
>I am aware of two sephardic families in Spain that are related to the
>Kings of Judah and Israel. There may be more of course. The family
>names are ABRAVANEL and IBN YAHYA. (There are spelling variations to
>both names) I research the family ABRAVANEL. I have found reference
>to two ABRAVANEL sons marrying into Spanish royalty around 1391.
>Unfortunately, I cannot identify the names of the young men, nor
>their brides. The grandmother of King Ferdinand was reportedly
>Jewish. He had her dug up and the body burned.
It's not his grandmother, and he didn't dig her up. Sheesh.
Here's the descent:
Alfonso XI, King of Castile (1311-1350) = Leonor de Guzman (1310-1351)
Fadrique de Castilla (1333/4-1358) = NN
Alonso Enriquez, 1. Admiral of Castile (c1354-1429) m. Juana de Mendoza
Fadrique Enriquez, 2. Admiral of Castile (-1473) m. Marina de Ayala
Juana Enriquez (c1425-1468) m. 1447 Juan II King of Aragon (1397-1479)
Ferdinand II King of Aragon (1452-1516)
The Jewish woman was the mistress of Fadrique and mother of Alonso. For a
fairly complete examination, see Florentino Perez Embid, *El Almirantazgo
de Castilla hasta las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe*, note 430 on pages 142
and 143, though Perez Embid misses the version of the story given by Rabbi
Eliyahu ben Elqana Capsali (c1490-c1555) in his *Seder Eliyahu Zuta*,
recently re-published by the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1975). See
chapter 58 in volume I, pp. 182-184.
As neither of these sources are easy to find, and Capsali is in Hebrew,
more accessible versions were published twice by Szabolcs de Vajay, once in
"Die Ahnen der Dona Leonor Alvarez de Toledo, Grossfuerstin von Toskana",
*Genealogisches Jahrbuch*, Band 8 (1968), at nr. 73 on p. 13, and again in
"Dona Margarita de Cardona, Mutter des ersten Fuersten von Dietrichstein",
*Jahrbuch der Heraldisch-Genealogischen Gesellschaft "Adler"*, Dritte
Folge, Band 7 (1970), at nr. 41 (and note 87) on p. 144.
And there's always *Europaeische Stammtafeln*, ed. Schwennicke, Band III,
Teilband 3, Tafel 532b, where Alonso Enriquez (Ferdinand's great-
grandfather, see above) is described as a son of Fadrique "aus der
Verbindung mit einem judischen Madchen gt La Paloma (die Taube)".
If you let me know which list your question originally appeared on, I can
post this answer there also.
William Addams Reitwiesner
wr...@erols.com
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