Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte

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Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte

Crypto-Jewish martyr. Born in Spain, Treviño fled to Mexico at around age 20. There he practiced Judaism secretly until his discovery and execution. His defiance and refusal to accept Catholicism has made him an important figure in studies of early Jews in Latin America, and he is regarded as one of the most well-known victims of the Spanish Inquisition.[1]

Biography

Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte was born in 1592 in

canonical law at the University of Salamanca. He had been a page in Medina de Rioseco; when another page called him a Jew as an insult, he killed the page. He fled Spain around 1611 or 1612. When his father, died in 1619, his mother was arrested and died in prison in Valladolid.[6][4] He had two brothers, Jerónimo and Francisco; Jerónimo was tortured until he gave up the whereabouts of Tomás.[7][5]

Treviño de Sobremonte was first arrested in 1624 on accusations of Judaizing.[8] As he readily confessed to secretly practicing Judaism since the age of fourteen[5] and reportedly showed signs of contrition and repentance, he was freed within a year. He was involved in trade. He married María Gomez in 1629, in a reportedly Jewish wedding. They had 6 children: Leonor, Rafael, Micaela, Gavriel, Salvador, and Antonio, the last of which who died as a child.[7][5]

He was accused once more in 1638 of Judaizing.[1]

He and his wife were arrested again in 1645. The punishment for those already convicted once of practicing Judaism was death. Treviño de Sobremonte and his wife resolved to die together.[7] At first, he refused to admit guilt; eventually, he confessed, and insisted on dying as a Jew.[4]

Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte was executed at the

auto da fe in Mexico City.[5]
His children were assimilated into Catholicism.

He was immortalized in Miguel de Barrios' 1683 poem.[10]

His house was for a time preserved as a historical landmark, but by 1923 was in ruins.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ Also written as Tremiño or Trebiño
  2. ^ In Spanish: "Echen más leña, que mi dinero me cuesta".

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 43057790
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  2. ^ Jewish Social Studies. Indiana University Press. 1980. p. 64.
  3. JSTOR 41316480
    . Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  4. ^
    S2CID 162293133
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  5. ^
    JSTOR 23874312
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  6. ISBN 9780870241291
    .
  7. ^
    JSTOR 4467073
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  8. JSTOR 23880521
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  9. JSTOR j.ctv47w8sq.9
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  10. S2CID 159930819
    . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  11. ^ Gónzalez Obregón, Luis (1923). "La Casa Del Judío" [House of the Jew]. Las Calles de Mexico [The Streets of Mexico] (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 September 2023.
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