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Cortes
Posted by robert <iproximus@hotmail.com> on Mon, 27 Aug 2007, in response to Cortez or Cortes, posted by Yarown Yehuda Yehowchanan Cortez on Wed, 18 Jan 2006
First. There's no doubt many people of Hispanic origin have a semetic gene. However, you're completely wrong about the name Cortez, or properly Cortés, which was a title granted to Hernan's family, it means attentive - chivalrous - civil - courteous - gallant - graceful - gracious - urbane. First, you incorrectly spelled his name, -ez in Spanish usually means "son of", but as I pointed out its Cortés.Secondly. The word Iberian comes from the Greek word "Ebro" which is the name of the river in Spain given by the Greeks in about 800 B.C., later to be translated to Latin after the Roman arrival to "Iberus". Prior to the Roman take over, this land was well established by Carthage(Phoenicians) in 1100 B.C. and was subsequently lost during the Punic wars. The word Punic by the way, comes from the Latin word Punici for Phoenician, who were really just Lebonese people, not Hebrew.
Thirdly. The Spanish language, or more properly Castillano, is a dialect of Latin brought from Rome. One doesn't have to delve to deep to understand Hebrew and Latin are completley unrelated. I won't go into too much detail, but pull out a Latin, Spanish, and Hebrew dictionaries for a side by side comparison. The Ladino you speak of is a medieval dialect of Castillian spoken by Jews in Spain at the time. During the 17th century when many Jews were expelled from Spain, they took their adopted tongue and surnames with them to other parts of Europe, Jeruselam, and the America's, where with a keen eye, many Mexicans can still be identified. A modern day similarity can be seen with the German Jews who have come to New York with their adopted German names and dialect, Yiddish, which a Germanic language written using a Hebrew alphabet.
Lastly. Quoted from Wiki.
Motives for instituting the Spanish Inquisition
Historians differ about Ferdinand and Isabella's motives for introducing the Inquisition into Spain. A number of possible reasons have been suggested:
1. To establish political and religious homogeneity. The Inquisition allowed the monarchy to intervene actively in religious affairs, without the interference of the Pope. At the same time, Ferdinand and Isabella's objective was the creation of an efficient state machinery; thus one of their priorities was to achieve religious unity to promote more centralized political authority.
2. To weaken local political opposition to the Catholic monarchs. Strengthening centralized political authority also entailed weakening local political opposition. Resistance to the installation of the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Aragon, for example, was often couched in terms of local legal privileges (fueros).
3. Out of fear. The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901 (Vol XI, p.485) states that, "It remains a fact that the Jews, either directly or through their correligionists in Africa, encouraged the Mohammedans to conquer Spain." Whether real or imagined there was a great fear among 15th Century Spaniards that they had a Fifth column living among them.[5]
4. To do away with the powerful converso minority. Many members of influential families such as the Santa Fés, the Santangels, the Caballerias and the Sanchezes, were prosecuted in the Kingdom of Aragon. However the King of Aragon, Ferdinand, continued to employ many conversos in his administration.
5. Profit. The property of people found guilty by the Inquisition was confiscated. Sixtus IV openly accused the monarchs of this sin.
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