Editing Marrano (section)

===Inquisition===
[[File:Execution of Mariana de Carabajal.jpg|thumb|180px|Execution of [[Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal|Mariana de Carabajal]] in Mexico, 1601.]]

Tens of thousands of Jews were baptised in the three months before the deadline for expulsion, some 40,000 if one accepts the totals given by Kamen: most of these undoubtedly to avoid expulsion,{{citation needed|reason=I wouldn't be surprised but wording sounds rather like original research|date=November 2014}} rather than as a sincere change of faith. These ''conversos'' were the principal concern of the Inquisition; being suspected of continuing to practice Judaism put them at risk of denunciation and trial.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

During 1492, about 12,000 ''conversos'' entered [[Navarre]] from Aragon's repression, where they were allowed to remain. [[Tudela, Navarre|Tudela in Navarre]] turned into a ''converso'' haven. The Tudelans had already proclaimed in 1486 that "''if any inquisitor enters their city, he will be thrown into the [[Ebro]] river.''" Later the resistance to the inquisitors was so strong that its aldermen ordered commissioners and attorneys to ask the [[Catholic Monarchs]] to limit the power of the Inquisition in 1510.<ref>Cf. Salcedo Izu, Joaquín, Gran Enciclopedia Navarra, Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, Pamplona 1990, Tomo VI, voz Inquisición, pp. 131–134.</ref><ref>González Echeverría, Francisco Javier. ''The Love for Truth: Life and Work of Michael Servetus'' (''El amor a la verdad. Vida y obra de Miguel Servet''), printed by Navarro y Navarro, Zaragoza, collaboration with the Government of Navarre, Department of Institutional Relations and Education of the Government of Navarre, pp.&nbsp;445-450</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130711010637/http://michaelservetusresearch.com/ENGLISH/index.html Michael Servetus Research]. Website with historical and graphical study on the ''conversos'' in Navarre, specifically the ''converso'' Michael de Villanueva ("Servetus").</ref>

The most intense period of persecution of ''conversos'' lasted until 1530. From 1531 to 1560, however, the percentage of ''conversos'' among the Inquisition trials dropped to 3% of the total. There was a rebound of persecutions when a group of crypto-Jews was discovered in [[Quintanar de la Orden]] in 1588; and there was a rise in denunciations of ''conversos'' in the last decade of the sixteenth century. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, some ''conversos'' who had fled to Portugal began to return to Spain, fleeing the persecution of the [[Portuguese Inquisition]], founded in 1536. This led to a rapid increase in the trials of crypto-Jews, among them a number of important financiers. In 1691, during a number of ''[[autos-da-fé]]'' in [[Mallorca]], 37 ''chuetas'', or ''conversos'' of Mallorca, were burned.<ref>{{harvp|Kamen|2014|p=369}}</ref>

During the eighteenth century the number of ''conversos'' accused by the Inquisition decreased significantly. [[Manuel Santiago Vivar]], tried in Córdoba in 1818, was the last person tried for being a crypto-Jew.<ref>{{harvp|Kamen|2014|p=370}}</ref>