Gracia Mendes Nasi

Portuguese-born Jewish philanthropist

1510 CE to 1569 CE

Gracia Mendes Nasi (Gracia is archaic Portuguese and Spanish for the Hebrew Hannah, also known by her Christianized name Beatriz de Luna Miques, 1510-1569) is one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe.

She marries into the eminent international banking and finance dynasty of Mendes, and is the aunt of Joseph Nasi, who becomes a prominent figure in the politics of the Ottoman Empire.

Dona Gracia was born in Lisbon, Portugal, into an ancient, venerable family of marranos, originally from Aragon, that had fled to Portugal when the Catholic Monarchs expelled the Jews in 1492.

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