Expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula

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The end of the period known as the Reconquest brought with it the formation of a new order by which the Muslim, Jewish and Christian populations began to have other points of relationship. Unlike the Jewish population of the peninsula, the Moors could have settled on the land for a longer period of time, since these, although unfaithful, had advantages in the treaties of peace. In this lesson from a TEACHER we bring you the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula and we will see the different stages they went through and the causes that led the Spanish Crown to take this solution.

Index

1. Life after the Reconquest
2. Causes that led to the expulsion of the Moors
3. The failure of the Spanish bureaucracy
4. The kick of the Moorish
5. The consequences

Once the year 1492 has passed we will find that in the territory of the Castilian Crown there were approximately some 325,000 Moors, said population It was located in the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia and Castile.

In these places they occupied the poor lands, being normally confined in villages that were practically only made up of this ethnic group. Therefore they continued maintaining their cultural traditionsSo, being cut off from the world, they had no one to watch over them.

This caused that the old Christians began to make a series of formal complaints to the Crown asking that the said population, the The problem was that they had been baptized in the Catholic faith and therefore a series of investigations had to be carried out on the accusations of heresy.

In this other lesson we discover a summary of the Spanish Reconquest.

Continuing with the lesson on the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, we must stop at the series of Circumstances that arose for the Crown to take part in expelling for life anyone who came from blood Muslim in Spain.

They were cut off from society

First of all, we know from the chronicles that the Moorish population lived apart from the rest of the Spanish society of the time and, although they had been forced to convert to Christianity, it was known that They maintained many traditions from Islam, in addition to maintaining their language because few spoke the Castilian.

The rebellion of the Alpujarras

Between the years 1568-1571 there was the rebellion of the Alpujarras, by which the Moors from Granada spoke out in rebellion against the Crown. In the same way, it is known that the news that reached the place about the incursions of Turkish pirates on the Spanish coasts were well received.

That was a very important fact for the expulsion of this social group, since the fear that they would help a Turkish invasion was enormous. Therefore, the first decision made by the Crown after ending the rebellion was to displace them, so many ended up in the kingdoms of Valencia, Murcia and Aragon, waiting for a relocation.

Time of recession

Third, this era was marked by a recession in the arrival of resources from AmericaFor this reason, many Spaniards began to have a certain hatred towards Moorish groups since they sold as cheap labor making it impossible to compete against them in the search for new jobs.

Influence of Christianity

Finally, we must mention the role of Christian defense that the Hispanic Monarchy had that began to be staggered due to the permanence of this group in the peninsula. Many authors claimed that the struggles against Protestantism in the northern European territories were enormous, while in the Peninsula they allowed infidels to even get rich.

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After the arrival to the throne of Felipe III the king, together with the Duke of Lerma, made a trip to the kingdom of Valencia where he saw first-hand the Moorish problems and the possible solutions that could be given to this.

That way, the same monarch created a decalogue in which he gave the Moors two years for the sincere conversion to Christianity and also encouraging them to take Castilian as their only language. The problem was that the Archbishop of Denia, who was the one who had to carry out the conversion, changed the dates in addition to warning that, at the end of the year, anyone who was not converted would be expelled.

This brought with it a series of riots and malaise undoubtedly caused by the pressure made by this news. In this way the Crown had no choice but to expel the entire Moorish community.

On April 4, 1609, the Moors were expelled from the kingdom of Valencia, although it was not until September 22 that they were given a period of three days to leave their homes. Within the clauses, the Crown demanded that everything that could not be loaded, must be sold immediately or would remain under the ownership of the Crown.

This caused that many material goods that were bought by the old Christians who swore to defend the now expelled communities were sold; that is, they took advantage of the need of this group to obtain great benefits. Only a few families would remain in the peninsula who had realized that they were true Christians (possibly the chronicles refer to high dignitaries of these communities). Thus, between October 1609 and January 1610, the galleys were transporting all the Moors to the Berber coast.

Once the expulsion in Valencia was over, it was the turn of the Castilla's crown. In this way, as of January 10, 1610, the same event was carried out. Some 30,000 Moors were transported to the shores of North Africa, although we know that in Andalusia there were many who were protected by the old Christians themselves.

From the rest of Castile, the Moors were crossing the border with France in a staggered manner thus avoiding the humiliation of being deported, in addition to being able to obtain greater profit in the sales of their goods.

Continuing with our lesson on the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, we know that, in the kingdom of Aragon, a total of 70,000 Moorish those who were embarked on the ships for deportation, leaving most of the countryside depopulated, since it was these populations that were in charge of carrying out the jobs that no other Spaniard wanted.

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To conclude with our lesson on the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, we have to say that a calculation has been made in which it is indicated that approximately some 270,140 people were deported during the years 1609-1610.

Leaving a large part of the peninsular territory uninhabited, causing a fairly important economic crisis, which at the end of the monarch's reign began to subside.

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