Limpieza de sangre statutes

Timeline

1. 1449–1451Toledo · ToledoAmid anti-converso riots over taxation in Toledo, Pedro Sarmiento presided over the Sentencia-Estatuto, barring conversos of Jewish blood from municipal and notarial offices and from serving as witnesses. Pope Nicholas V condemned it, but it became the textual precedent for later blood statutes.
2. 1480–1492Castile · CastileAfter the Catholic Monarchs established the Spanish Inquisition, the pursuit of 'secret Judaism' institutionalized suspicion of lineage. Military orders, cathedral chapters, and some universities and confraternities inserted limpieza de sangre clauses in the 1480s; conversos still had to submit genealogical proof even after generations of faith.
3. c. 1500–1865Spanish kingdoms · SpainBy around 1500, most religious orders, colleges, and municipal corporations in Iberia had made limpieza de sangre an admission requirement, extending it to descendants of Moors. This discriminatory legal system ran alongside the Inquisition for centuries, until liberal reforms of the nineteenth century gradually abolished the relevant oaths and inquiries.