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1 1478 - Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition established in Spain. 2  King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile wanted Spain to be entirely Catholic. 3  1492 - Edict of Expulsion ordered Jews to convert or leave. 4  Muslim converts were called Moriscos.arvajal's family was among the estimated one-third of Spanish Jews who converted to Catholicism to escape the Inquisition's clutches. They were known as the conversos. So, Carvajal is technically the descendant of converts.
Conversos and the Spanish Inquisition By David M. GitlitzUniversity of Rhode Island(edited from an interview by David Rabinovitch) The End of Tolerance Spain had an enormous Jewish community in the middle ages and toward the end of the 14th century large numbers of them were converted to Catholicism.ulled from Inquisition documents, David Gitlitz documents the religious customs of the Iberian Jews who converted to Catholicism, largely under duress, in the 14th and 15th centuries in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies.