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    Default Spanish aristocracy was full of moroccans

    As crazy as it can sounds, History teaches us that many spanish aristocrats were in fact moroccans who converted to christianity :


    1564: the descendants of the last Merinids, dislodged by the Saadians, cross into Spain and convert to Christianity; one of them, under the name of don Juan de Castille, served in the army of King Philip II in Flanders. The same year, we find in Brussels a don Alonso de Fez; a Moroccan notable who joined Tangier to become a Christian
    The second remained in Christianity and experienced a dazzling integration into the Spanish nobility. He converted in fact on November 3, 1593. Miraculous conversion, since it took place following a great feast during which the prince lived an overwhelming experience: the subsequent accounts, in fact, relate that the young prince was was in Andújar during the annual pilgrimage to the Virgin de la Cabeza, at the beginning of April. Fascinated by the joyous crowd of pilgrims on their way to the sanctuary, banners deployed and music in the lead, he had joined them, had entered the church, disguised as Spaniard, and at the spectacle of the Virgin unveiled before the devotees, had felt such a strong emotion that he had sworn to serve her4. In fact, determined to convert despite the opposition of his relatives, he was instructed in the Christian religion by clerics, now closely surrounded by Christian servants, then he was invited to go to Madrid where the baptism would take place in the presence of the King. He left Andújar in September and received baptism two months later in the royal chapel of the Escorial, in the presence of King Philip II, his godfather, the Infanta Isabella, his godmother, and the highest figures of the kingdom, clerics. or lay people. He then took the name of Prince Felipe of Africa or Don Felipe Xariffe, thus retaining his status as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad - sheriff. He was generally called "prince of Fez and Morocco", it was always remembered that he was the son of the king, it was continued to assert that he was the true and legitimate ruler of his country. At the same time, Don Felipe obtained the prestigious titles of knight of the order of Saint James, the military order whose vocation was the fight against Islam, and of Grand of Spain, the highest dignity of the aristocracy. With an estate with an income of 12,000 ducats and a king's pension, he lived thirteen years in a palace in Madrid, except for a few trips around the country and a brief stay in Flanders. A prominent figure, he attended the wedding of King Philip III in 1599 in Valencia, and as Grand of Spain, he was associated with all major public events; he became friends with the country's elite, and in particular with the great writer and playwright Lope de Vega, who devoted a play to him - The Baptism of the Prince of Morocco - presented at the theater in Madrid.

    Contemporary of Don Felipe, a descendant of the Merinids, defeated in an umpteenth civil war, fled among the Christians and converted following an apparition. Under the name of Don Gaspar de Benimerin, he was first in the service of Philip II in the war that he waged against the Protestants of the Netherlands, then of the Emperor Rudolph, between 1604 and 1606, in the war fought against the revolted Hungarians7. He has long had the dream of regaining power in Morocco while remaining a Christian. An active member of the Order of the Christian Militia created in 1618 in Vienna, he conceived a project to create on an island in the Mediterranean a headquarters of the Militia which, symmetrical in the East of the island of Malta in the West, would serve bridgehead to the crusade against the Turks. His project does not come to fruition. After living in Rome and Naples, he died in this city in 1641. His long epitaph in Latin, in the church of Sainte-Marie de la Concorde, designates him as the 22nd king of Africa, and recalls that he defended Christian faith by fighting heretics. He himself referred to himself as “Infant de Fez”, and his daughter as “princess of Morocco” 8. Gaspar de Benimerin will have spent forty years of his life in the service of Christendom, and against Islam.

    1636 again: Moulay al-Wâlid's nephew is baptized under the name of Don Felipe-Gasparo-Alonso de Guzman, and he will serve the King of Spain in Flanders9. 1649: A grandson of Sultan Ahmad al-Mansűr is converted and receives the name, already borrowed from earlier, of Don Felipe of Africa. Like his namesake, he benefits from a pension from the king, Philip IV, who sends him to the kingdom of Naples.
    Others take the priestly habit, and therefore fully espouse the Christian religion. This is the case of Baltazar Loyola Mendez; This is also the case of the last Moroccan prince whose conversion we know of, Don Lorenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Trojano, born in Taroudant, in the Moroccan region, in 1704. His name is Moulay Ahmad before his passage in Christianity and his conversion. His father, son of the reigning sultan and governor of the region, had entered into dissent without succeeding in being proclaimed sultan. In 1729, he in turn claimed power, was recognized only by part of the country, and took refuge in Mazagan. From there, he reached Portugal, then Spain, and finally Rome, where he received baptism in Saint Peter on March 6, 1733 at the hands of Pope Clement XII. He takes the name of his godfather, nephew of the Pope, Prince Bartholomeus Corsini. We find him later in Florence, where "the Duke of Tuscany received him with princely honors and took him for a ride in his coaches". He settled in Rome, and when he died there, in February 1739, he enjoyed "the same ceremonies as at the funeral of the Roman patricians" 14. He is buried in the religious habit of the order of Saint Francis.

    source : https://journals.openedition.org/pallas/2571#tocto1n1

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    And what? What's your problem here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rethel View Post
    And what? What's your problem here?
    Problem ? There is no problem here simply an interesting historical fact

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamilcar View Post
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    How important is it that a handful of Moroccan aristocrats convert to christianity and lived in Spain?

    I'm more concerned about the currently out-of-control invasion of all kinds of criminal scum

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    Fascinating stuff. It makes sense given the history between the two.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gredos View Post
    How important is it that a handful of Moroccan aristocrats convert to christianity and lived in Spain?

    I'm more concerned about the currently out-of-control invasion of all kinds of criminal scum
    No one said it's important, I simply didn't expect it

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