Group
New Christians
New Christian is a law-effective and social category developed from the fifteenth century onwards, and used in what is today Spain and Portugal as well as their New World colonies, to refer to Sephardic Jews and Muslim Moors who had converted to Roman Catholicism, often by force or coercion.
It is developed and employed after the successful reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Catholic Monarchs.By law, the category of New Christian includes not only recent converts, but also all their known baptized descendants with any fraction or quantum of New Christian blood up to the fourth generation, then in Phillip II's reign it includes any person with any fraction of New Christian blood "from time immemorial".
In Portugal, it is only in 1772 that the Marquis of Pombal finally decrees an end to the legal distinction between New Christians and Old Christians.
Member Cities
- Algiers > Alger Alger Algeria Location
- Càgliari > Carales Sardegna Italy Location
- Faro Faro Portugal Location
- Granada Andalucia Spain Location
- Lisbon (Belém) Lisboa Portugal Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Livorno (Leghorn) Toscana Italy Location
- Madrid Madrid Spain Location
- Monterrey Nuevo León Mexico Location
- Naples > Napoli Campania Italy Location
- Paranaguá Paraná Brazil Location
- Pernambuco > Recife Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Pôrto Seguro Bahia Brazil Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Seville > Sevilla Andalucia Spain Location
- São Paulo São Paulo Brazil Location
- São Vicente São Paulo Brazil Location
- Toledo > Tolentum Castilla-La Mancha Spain Location
- Venice > Venezia Veneto Italy Location
- Évora Evora Portugal Location