See also:MORISCOS (i.e. little See also:Moors)
, the name given to the See also:Spanish
Mahommedans who accepted See also:baptism and their descendants
.
Many, if not most, of them were in reality of the same See also:race as the Christians, and were descended from converts to See also:Islam
.
Those Mahommedans who retained their See also:religion under See also:Christian rulers were known as Mudejars, a word of Arabic origin which has been interpreted as meaning " those who remained " or " were See also:left." Until the 15th See also:century they were numerous, and enjoyed See also:free exercise of their religion, which was secured to them by See also:capitulations and See also:treaties
.
Their number had been considerably diminished by the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:conquest of See also:Granada in 1492
.
By the terms of the See also:capitulation of the See also:city freedom of See also:worship was secured to the Mahommedans
.
But the policy of the See also:Catholic sovereigns, who desired to establish unity of faith
among their subjects, and the See also:influence of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, soon led to violations of the treaty
.
The first Christian See also:archbishop of Granada, Talavera, made some progress in converting the See also:people peacefully
.
But at the end of 1499 See also:Cardinal Jimenez insisted on adopting coercive See also:measures
.
A See also:rebellion ensued, and the Mahommedans were suppressed
.
Want of See also:power, or other obstacles, delayed the final extinction of tolerated Mahommedanism in all parts of See also:Spain, but by 1525 it was every-where suppressed
.
The last remains of it were crushed in See also:Valencia, where the Mahommedans were furiously attacked by the Christian peasantry during the See also:great agrarian revolt known as the Germania, 1520-1521
.
As they were dependent on the See also:protection of the landlords, the Mahommedans were docile tenants, and their competition weighed heavily on the Christians
.
The same quality of See also:industry remained to the See also:Moriscos, and excited the envy of their Christian See also:fellow countrymen
.
The feelings with which they were regarded are admirably shown by Cervantes (who shared them to the full) in his " Conversation of the Two See also:Dogs." In 1568 the See also:government of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. issued an See also:edict, which ordered them to renounce all their Moorish ways of See also:life and to give up their See also:children to be educated by Christian priests
.
The result was a rebellion in Granada, which was put down with great difficulty
.
The Moriscos were expelled from Granada and scattered over other parts of Spain
.
Many fled to See also:Africa, where the more spirited among them took to piracy at See also:Algiers and other ports
.
They still maintained relations with their kinsfolk in Spain, and the whole See also:coast suffered from their incursions
.
The Moriscos entered into relations with other enemies of Spain, and notably, with See also:France
.
See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. included a See also:plan for supporting a Morisco rebellion in the great See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for the destruction of the Spanish See also:monarchy, which he was about to put into See also:execution when he was murdered on the 14th of May 1610
.
These intrigues were known to the Spanish government and inspired it with terror
.
The See also:expulsion of the whole See also:body of Moriscos was decided on in ,6o8, and the edict was published on the 22nd of See also:September 1609
.
The expulsion was carried out with great See also:cruelty
.
The number driven out has been variously estimated at 120,000 or at 3,000,000
.
In some known cases the expelled Moriscos suffered martyrdom in Africa as Christians
.
A few were left in Spain as domestic slaves, and some contrived to return in See also:secret
.
Cases of crypto-Mahommedanism continued to come before the See also:Inquisition till the 18th century
.
See The Moriscos of Spain: their See also:Conversion and Expulsion, by H
.
C
.
See also:Lea (See also:London, 1901)
.
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