Abraham Senior
Abraham Senior also Abraham Senneor or Abraham Seneor (* 1412 in Segovia ; † 1493 ) was a Jewish magnate and financier. Under the government of the Catholic Kings Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon , he was advisor to the Crown and supreme royal tax collector. The king gave him the title of Rab do la Corte (Court Rabbi) of Castile .
Life
Like Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Senior was one of the influential " court factors " at the court of the Spanish kings. Because of his cleverness, his wealth and his aristocratic lifestyle he was held in high regard by the grandees of Spain. Senior was held in high regard by the Queen throughout his life. Isabella gave him a lifelong pension of 100,000 maravedis a year for services rendered .
Together with Abravanel, Abraham Senior contributed significantly to the financing of the war against the Muslim rulers , who after ten years of costly and loss-making fighting had to finally vacate the Alhambra fortress , their last base on Spanish soil, on January 2, 1492 .
On March 31, 1492, the "Catholic Kings" issued the Alhambra Edict , in which the expulsion of Jews from all territories of the Spanish crown was ordered on July 31 of the year, provided they had not converted to Christianity by then. Although Senior and Abravanel intervened with the queen, the edict - despite their great services to the crown - also applied to her. Unlike Abravanel, who refused to convert and left Spain, the 81-year-old Abraham Senior submitted and was baptized together with his son on March 31, 1492 in Valladolid. The king and queen attended the baptism as “godparents”. When he was baptized, Senior took on the Christian name Ferrad [Fernando] Perez Coronel .
literature
- Joseph Kaplan: Seneor, Abraham. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 18, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865946-6 , pp. 288-289 (English).
- Joseph Jacobs, Meyer Kayserling: Senior, Abraham. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Ayoun, Haïm Vidal Sephiha: Sefardíes de ayer y de hoy: 71 retratos (= EDAF ensayo . No. 13 ). EDAF, Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-414-1108-5 , pp. 89 (Spanish, limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abraham Senior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fernando Perez Coronel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish magnate and financier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1412 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Segovia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1493 |