Reina, widow of Bonjua Cap: Valls, 1338

Reina, widow of Bonjua Cap: Valls, 1338

Reina, widow of Bonjua Cap

The widow Reina distributed 2,720 sous in her will. She gave 500 sous to marry off poor Jewish girls, and orders money to be invested to finance a Torah for the synagogue. She leaves money to family and friends, most notably 1000 sous to a female relative on her husband's side. Three Jews witness this will. (See description in Burns, Jews in the Notarial Culture, 110-111.) 

Valls, Spain

1338

AWAITING ARCHIVAL CITATION

See Burns, Jews in the Notarial Culture, 110-113.

Transcribed in Gabriel Secall i Güell, Els jueus de Valls i la seva época (Valls: Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, 1980), pp. 202-203. Also see pp. 188-191. 

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