"That penance should not hinder the descendants that he had". Social integration and promotion of a judeoconverso family: the case of the Ramirez from Lucena (Cordoba)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the evolution of one of the main judeoconverso lineages of the Kingdom of Córdoba in the Early Modern Era, the Ramirez. Native of Espejo, soon they found in Lucena, the capital of the Marquisate of Comares, the perfect place to hide their past and ennobled near their lord. The protagonists of this study are their close relationship with the Marquis, their desire to produce a new family memory, and the matrimonial and economic strategies that allowed them to become one of the more powerful groups in the oligarchy of Lucena and one of the paradigmatic examples of integration of the New Christians in the Andalusian territory.