SALAMANCA, JUAN DE
Practitioner Bio
Born c. 1495-1499 in Almenara, Castile, Spain. Worked as a barber. Traveled c. 1524 to New Spain. Tried in proceso of 1539. Accused of being a Judio and observer of Mosaic laws. The trial record is incomplete, so it is unknown what happened to him. There is no record of him in an Auto de Fe, so he likely went unpunished. Counted Hernán Cortés among his employers.
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Bibliography (secondary sources relating to this practitioner)
Chuchiak IV, John F., ed. The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536-1820: A Documentary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
D’Ardois, German Somolinos. Relación Alfabetica de Los Profesionistas Médicos o En Conexión Con La Medicina, Que Practicaron En Territorio Mexicano (1521-1618). Mexico: Sociedad Mexicana de Historia y Filosofía de la Medicina, 1978.
Liebman, Seymour B. A Guide to Jewish References in the Mexican Colonial Era, 1521-1821. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964.
———. The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World: Summaries of Procesos, 1500-1810. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1975.
Toro, Alfonso. Los Judíos En La Nueva España. Mexico City: Archivo General de la Nación, 1982.