1/ Stories from the Archives of the Inquisition: Meet Anne Gargill, the Quaker woman who traveled by ship to Portugal in 1656 to chat with the King and convert him... and instead got to chat with the Inquisition. #twitterstorians 2/ In 1654 Cromwell's England and the Kingdom of Portugal made a peace treaty that (re)established commercial links between the two countries.

1/ Stories from the Archives of the Inquisition: In 1669 Jaime Frigola, a Catalan solider served in the Portuguese army was living a quiet life with his Portuguese wife.... until one day a letter arrived from Barcelona and he had some explaining to do. #twitterstorians 2/ Jaime Frigola was a mercenary (perhaps an exile after the unsuccessful Catalan revolt against the Spanish Crown between 1640 and 1652) serving in a cavalry outfit stationed on the Portuguese-Spanish border.

1/ Stories from the Archives of the Inquisition. The Trials of Mateus Salomão in Palermo (1606) and Goa (1610-1614), A Case Study in the Inquisition’s Global Reach and why lying to the inquisitors about your previous trial is not a good idea. #twitterstorians 2/ The ability of the Inquisition to overcome the many obstacles presented by trials involving suspects who had travelled between continents is remarkably well illustrated by trial dossier number 5,037 in the archives of the Inquisition of Lisbon.

1/ Stories from the archives of the Inquisition: A bigamist with a big problem, Don Francisco de Ovando knew how to game the Inquisition and find a solution to his problem in 1710. #twitterstorians 2/ In 1710, the Iberian Peninsula was wracked by the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) . Essentially a civil war caused by two claimants for the Spanish throne: the Bourbon Philip V and the Habsburg Charles III. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_th…

1/ Stories from the archives of the Inquisition: The Trial of Father Pedro Furtado, alias "Father Paula", a priest in Sambade, a remote village in northern Portugal, who told his male sexual partners that he was a woman (1698-1701). #twitterstorians 2/ On the afternoon of 3 April 1698, a prisoner was led from the cells in the building of the inquisitorial tribunal in Coimbra, in Portugal to a building housing an “old chapel”. The prisoner was met by a doctor, a surgeon and two notaries of the Inquisition.

1/ Inquisitorial Trials can contain unexpected finds #2. In 1542, the Portuguese Inquisition arrested Diogo de Leao, a cobbler, on suspicion of being a crypto-Jew. For historians, his trial dossier contains an unexpected historical treasure.
#twitterstorians 2/ Among his possessions, they found a hoard of documents in Hebrew (wills/marriage contracts) dating from before the forced conversion of the Jews of Portugal by King Manuel in 1497.

1/ Stories from the Archives of the Portuguese Inquisition: the sad life of Jose Martins, the "she-man" (macho femea) of Ervedal (1725). 2/ The trial of Joseph Martins, an impoverished young shepherd residing in the village of Ervedal in south-central Portugal, offers a sad story of social ostracism and rape.

1/ The Portuguese #Inquisition and Female Homosexuality [Thread].
In Portugal, the legal authorities began to pay attention to female
homosexuality only at the end of the 15th century. 2/ The first royal edict to explicitly target female homosexuality was promulgated on 20 December 1499, during the reign of Manuel I (1495–1521).