Ferdinand II of Aragon

Ferdinand II of Aragon

male, deceased (1516)
Count of Barcelona, House of Trastamara, Roman Catholic, JewishSpanishhistory, Knight of the Garter, castile
Ferdinand II "the Catholic" (March 10, 1452 – January 23, 1516) was king of Aragon (1479–1516), Castile, Sicily (1468–1516), Naples (1504–...
Isabella Of Castile

Isabella Of Castile

female, deceased (1504)
Elisth, Italian, ferdinand, spanish language, Isabella I, Isabel la Católica…JewishSpanishhistory
Isabella I (April 22 1451 - November 26 1504) was Queen regnant of Castile and Leon. She and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, laid the...

Tomás de Torquemada

male, deceased (1498)
crypto-Muslims, crypto-Jews, grand inquisitor, isabella, moor, Jewish person…JewishSpanishhistory, spanish inquisition, spanish
Tomás de Torquemada was a fifteenth century Spanish Dominican, First Grand Inquisitor of Spain, and confessor to Isabella of Spain. He was f...
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

male, deceased (1058)
andalusian, valencia, Hebrew-language poet, poet, Philosopher of Judaism, Jewish…spanish, Jewish person, JewishSpanishhistory
Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah ("Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol";, "Abu Ayyūb Suleiman ibn Yahya ibn Jabirūl";, a corruption of "Ibn Ga...
Abraham Ibn Daud

Abraham Ibn Daud

male, deceased (1180)
from Toledo, Spain, Rishonim, Karaite Judaism, historian, German, philosopher…JewishSpanishhistory, Spanish-Jewish, Jewish
Abraham ibn Daud was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo, Spain about 1110; died, according to common report, a...

Joseph Ibn Naghrela

male, deceased (1066)
hebrew, vizier, spanish, Sephardi Jew, moor, Jewish person…JewishSpanishhistory
Joseph ibn Naghrela or Joseph ha-Nagid (Hebrew: רבי יהוסף בן שמואל הלוי הנגיד "Rabbi Yehosef ben Sh'muel ha-Levi han-Nagid"; Arabic: ابو...
Menahem ben Saruq

Menahem ben Saruq

male, deceased (970)
Jewish, poet, Grammarian, Philologist, spanish, Polyglot…JewishSpanishhistory
Menahem ben Saruq was a Spanish-Jewish philologist of the tenth century CE. He was a skilled poet and polyglot. He was born in Tortosa around 920...
Isaac Abrabanel

Isaac Abrabanel

male, deceased (1508)
Abravanel, Rishonim, Sephardi Jew, Jewish Portuguese history, Judah Minz, Medieval rabbi…Jewish person, JewishSpanishhistory, Jewish
Isaac ben Judah or Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He was a scion of the...

Samuel Ibn Naghrela

male, deceased (1056)
Sephardi Jew, massacre, poet, cordoba, vizier, spanish…Jewish, Jewish person, JewishSpanishhistory
Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel ha-Nagid (993-1056) was a Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, poet, warrior, and statesman, who lived in Spain...