Hernando del Pulgar [SEP] date of birth
Hernando del Pulgar
Hernando del Pulgar (1436 – c. 1492) was a converso Spanish writer.
He was born at Pulgar (near Toledo) and was educated at the court of John II. Henry IV made him one of his secretaries, and under Isabella he became councillor of state, was charged with a mission to France, and in 1482 was appointed historiographer-royal. He is said to have died in 1492.
His "Crónica de los Reyes Católicos", wrongly ascribed in the first edition (
their personal possessions. Another approximately 50,000 Jews received a Christian baptism so as to remain in Spain. Many of these, derogatorily dubbed "Marranos" by the Old Christian majority, secretly kept some of their Jewish traditions.They were one of the chief targets of the Inquisition, but it also pursued anyone who would criticize it.
There are various estimates of the number of victims of the Spanish Inquisition during Torquemada's reign as Grand Inquisitor. Hernando del Pulgar, Queen Isabella's secretary, wrote that 2,000 executions took place