This proclamation was the result of a crossroads of ideas, opinions and opinions between the monarch and his councils, and as a result a series of proclamations were issued in the absence of the organisation required for the expulsion of the Moors. Once the initiative to expel this peninsular population had been decreed, debates arose over the implications of this undertaking. The clergy insisted that the children of the Moors should stay to prevent them from suffering the same sinful fate as their parents. On this initiative, the ages at which these minors should stay were debated. One of the proposed plans was the transfer of these children of Moriscos to the interior of the peninsula, where Castilian families would have to take care of them. The aim was not only to remove them from a coastal area characterised by the danger posed by the Berber ships, but also to encourage their dispersion and the forgetting of their former confessional status. In the end, however, such initiatives fell by the wayside, and the children of Moriscos seem to have remained in their respective places. Their legal status oscillated according to circumstances, from slavery to an acceptable upbringing. Since then, according to Mario Martínez Gomis, they have been lost track of, with the exception of a few who, at certain junctures, made reference to their confessional past as a way of highlighting any impurities in their lineage.
Collection: Texts
Chronology: XVII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/4671
Resource type: Historical source
Source: Archivo Municipal de Alicante (en adelante A.M.A.), Llibre de provisions reals de laciutat de Alacant, 1609. Lib. 18., Arm. n.° 1 , fols. 72-73
Language: Spanish
Date: 1609
Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)
Identifier: Archivo Municipal de Alicante (en adelante A.M.A.), Llibre de provisions reals de laciutat de Alacant, 1609. Lib. 18., Arm. n.° 1 , fols. 72-73
Abstract: Bando published in Valencia at the request of the Marquis of Caracena in 1609 on what was to be done with the children of the Moriscos who had stayed behind
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