Leonor de Vivero

Leonor de Vivero (died 1558), was a Spanish Lutheran noblewoman. She was executed by burning by the Spanish Inquisition for heresy.[1]

She was married to the royal accountant Pedro Cazalla. They had Jewish origins, and both belonged to the circle of the mystic Francisca Hernández. Leonor de Vivero participated in a Protestant circle that gathered in her house and was accused of having conspired against the Catholic church.

Life

Her family belonged to the nobility, they had been counters of Castile and members of both the Valladolid bourgeois oligarchy and the courtly aristocracy. Leonor's father, Juan de Vivero, second of this noble family, married Constanza Ortiz, from Jewish family converted to Catholicism.[2]

Heresy charge

Her mother died in 1524, and proceedings against her began in 1526 for the delation of a maid who accused her of Judaizing despite having been reconciled. Other maids corroborated these accusations and Leonor and her brother Alonso Pérez de Vivero testified in her favor.[3] Alonso de Vivero was also suspected of Judaizing and maintaining contacts with Blessed Francisca Hernández, who had been accused as illuminated and after Lutheran. Francisca Hernández had stayed between 1520 and 1527 at the house of Leonor de Vivero and her husband.[4]

References
  1. Boeglin, Michel, ed. Reforma y disidencia religiosa : La recepción de las doctrinas reformadas en la península ibérica en el siglo xvi. Collection de la Casa de Velázquez. Casa de Velázquez. pp. 181-197. ISBN 978-84-9096-175-9.
  2. Fuente Pérez, María Jesús (2016-06-30). "Tres Violantes: las mujeres de una familia en el poder a lo largo del siglo XIII". Anuario de Estudios Medievales. 46 (1): 137–165. doi:10.3989/aem.2016.46.1.04. ISSN 1988-4230.
  3. Cabrera Pons, Juan Carlos (2015-08-10). "El Nuevo mundo y conquista de Francisco de Terrazas en la construcción de una historia criolla de la Nueva España". Andamios: Revista de Investigación Social. 12 (29): 141. doi:10.29092/uacm.v12i29.24. ISSN 1870-0063.
  4. Boeglin, Michel (2018). Reforma y disidencia religiosa La recepción de las doctrinas reformadas en la península ibérica en el siglo xvi. Ignasi Fernández Terricabras, David Kahn. [S.l.]: Casa de Velázquez. ISBN 978-84-9096-175-9. OCLC 1235824556.
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