The expulsion of nearly three hundred thousand Hispanic Moriscos, decided by Philip III on 4 April 1609, was the culmination of the process of eliminating religious minorities that began in our country with the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and put an end to the more or less peaceful coexistence that had been taking place since the Middle Ages between Christians and Mudejars. The compulsory conversion of the Mudejars, after the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada (1492), now known as Moriscos, brought the conflict to a standstill for a few decades, during which there was equal parts distrust and support, hostility and rapprochement. The different solutions proposed for the assimilation of the Moriscos, ranging from evangelisation to inquisitorial repression, show that doctrinal controversies also involved a political process of repression motivated by the context of the Hispanic Monarchy’s ongoing conflicts with the Turks and Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean. The uprising of the Moors in Granada (1568-1570) marked the end of illusions about the possibility of mutual understanding. The general expulsion sanctioned the triumph of an exclusive Catholicism in Spain. The vicissitudes in which the expulsion took place and the social and economic consequences of forced emigration were suffered throughout the 17th century and are detailed in thousands of documents recorded in volumes and bundles in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVII

Scope: Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/2961883

Resource type: Historical source

Format: Unknown

Source: Archivo de la Corona de Aragón. CONSEJO DE ARAGÓN. Consejo Supremo de Aragón. 3. Secretarías. Secretaría Cataluña. Negocios Notables. Moriscos de Cataluña. Represalias en bienes de franceses

Language: Spanish

Date: 29/05/1610

Owner: Álvaro Chaparro Sainz (Modernalia)

Identifier: ES.08019.ACA//ACA,CONSEJO DE ARAGÓN,Legajos,0221,nº 026

Copyright: © MECD. Archivos Estatales (España)

Abstract: Printed proclamation relating to the edict of expulsion of the Moors from the kingdom of Aragon, dated 29 May 1610.

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