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Martha Dinis, widow of Enrique Pereira: Pontevedra, 1603.
In 1582, in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, Martha Dinis married the licenciado and merchant Enrique Pereira. She was the daughter of the licenciado Paulo Núñez de Vitoria and his wife Isabel Thomas. All of these people were new Christians, natives of…
Oro, wife of Samuel Rimok: Monzón, 1463
Oro, the wife of a scion of a well-known family, dictates a long Hebrew will in early summer of 1463 when is she healthy, as she says, in both body and mind. The introductory materials have Oro insisting that, in the bad times in which she lives, no…
Stella, widow of Farachio De Bulfarachio: Caltabellotta, 1491
Stella is the widow of Farachio De Bulfarachio, also known as Nissim ben Shabbetai Abu-l Faraj, a Arab-Spanish rabbi.
In her will, the widow Stella names her son Jeremiah as her universal heir. She leaves to her daughter Channa, wife David de…
In her will, the widow Stella names her son Jeremiah as her universal heir. She leaves to her daughter Channa, wife David de…
Sterella, wife of Boniaqui: Marseille, 1399
TRANSCRIPTION: FF. In nomine domini amen. Notum sit et cetera annodomini Millesimo CCClxxxxviiii die vii mensis
Novembris circa terciam. Notum sit et cetera quod
cum nil sit certius morte quamvis eius
hora sit dubia et inserta idcirco
ego Sterella…