Inquisition

Massacres and Forced Conversions of 1391
Thousands of Spain's Jewish inhabitants were killed and many others were forced to convert and baptize to Christianity as a result of the religious persecution and pogroms which occurred in 1391.

Christian Inquisition
The Inquisition was a Christian tribunal initiated by Pope Innocent III to combat heresy. The Spanish Inquisition started in the late 15th century was used to maintain Catholic orthodoxy and to convert Jews and Muslims. The edict of expulsion in 1492 forced Jews to convert or leave Spain. Due to the expulsion and persecution in previous years, thousands of Jews converted to Christianity and thousands were expelled. Sentencia-Estatuto written by Roman Catholic, Pedro Sarmiento in 1499, prohibited conversos (Jews that did convert to Christianity after persecution) from holding public or ecclesiastical offices and from being able to testify against Spanish Christians in court. Jews that converted back to Judaism were killed.

Many Spanish Jews left Spain for Portugal and were persecuted there too. A Portugal edict of expulsion targeted Jews to be expelled from Portugal or forcibly convert to Christianity. In New Spain, the Spanish Empire in the New World, many Jews were executed for practicing the Jewish religion.

Deaths
During the first year of the Inqusition, over 300 Jews were killed. 37 Jews from Mallorca were killed.

Examples of Jews that were killed and their year of execution:
 * Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal with her children, Isabel, Catalina, Leonor, and Luis, 1596
 * Francisco Maldonado da Silva, 1639
 * Catalina Terongi, Rafael Valls and Rafael Benito, 1691
 * Maria Barbara Carillo, 1721
 * Ana de Castro, 1736