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Personal data Moshe Navarro 

• He was born in the year 1362 in Portugal.

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (80) when child (Pedro Navarro) was born (??-??-1442).

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• Profession: Master Mouseum and Arrabi-Mor, Chief Rabbi, Royal physician and treasurer.
• He died in the year 1410, he was 48 years old.

  Attention: Died 9 months (??-??-1410) prior to the birth (??-??-1442) of child (Pedro Navarro) .

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• A child of Yehudah Abin Menir ibn Yahya Navarro

Household of Moshe Navarro

He has/had a relationship with Maria de Navarra.

Child(ren):

1. Pedro Navarro  1442-1513 
2. Pedro de Navarra Navarro  
3. Maria de Navarra  

Notes about Moshe Navarro

All three Navarros used their offices to benefit their fellow-Jews. Particularly noteworthy are the efforts of the younger Moses Navarro at the time of the large-scale massacres of the Spanish Jews in 1391. In that year he presented the Portuguese king with the bull decreed on July 2, 1389, by Pope Boniface IX (based on a bull of Pope Clement VI), forbidding Christians to harm the Jews, desecrate their cemeteries, or attempt to baptize them by force. On July 17, 1392, the king ordered the promulgation of this bull throughout Portugal, reinforcing it with legislation of his own. Moses was also instrumental in acquiring the king's protection for Jewish refugees from Spain.
Grandson of Moses Navarro; Portuguese chief rabbi and "almoxarife," and body-physician of King Juan I.; died about 1410. Alarmed at the cruel persecution of the Jews in Spain and apprehending that it might spread to Portugal, D. Moses, in 1391, in the name of all Portuguese Jews, submitted to the king in Coimbra a bull of Pope Boniface IX., dated July 2, 1389, and based upon a bull of Pope Clement VI., in which it was most strictly forbidden to baptize a Jew by force, to beat, rob, or kill him, or to desecrate Jewish cemeteries, etc. By an enactment of July 17, 1392, the king not only ordered that this bull should be published throughout the kingdom, but he issued simultaneously a law to the same effect. At the same time D. Moses obtained the king's protection for the Spanish Jews who, in the year of terror 1391, sought refuge in Portugal. The king issued also a further order that both native-born and immigrant Jews should be protected, and prohibited under penalty their arrest. Moses' successor as chief rabbi was Judah Cohen, otherwise unknown.

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