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Abraham Senior.
Sephardi rabbi, banker and politician, who converted to Catholicism
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About Abraham Senior
Don Abraham Seneor or Abraham Senior was a Sephardi rabbi, banker, politician, patriarch of the Coronel family and last Crown rabbi of Castile, a senior member of the Castilian hacienda. In 1492, at the age of 80, he converted to Roman Catholicism from Judaism. Taking the name Ferrán, Fernán, or Fernando Pérez Coronel; thus founding the noble lineage of Coronel.
Everything about Abraham Senior →- Occupation
- rabbi, adviser, banker
- Position held
- Regidor of Segovia
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Born
- 1412
- Died
- 1493, 1496