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Nasi, Gracia, approximately 1510-1569


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  • Variants

    • Donah Gratsyah, approximately 1510-1569
    • Gracia, Dona, approximately 1510-1569
    • Gratsyah, Donah, approximately 1510-1569
    • Grazia, Donna, approximately 1510-1569
    • Luna, Beatrice de, approximately 1510-1569
    • Mendes, Gracia, approximately 1510-1569
    • Mendesia, Gracia, 1510 (ca.)-1569?
    • Nasi, Gracia, ca. 1510-1569
    • Nasi, Grazia, approximately 1510-1569
    • Nasi, Beatriz, approximately 1510-1569
    • דונה גרציה
    • Luna, Beatriz de, approximately 1510-1569
  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1510~
    • Death Date

        1569
    • Birth Place

        Lisbon (Portugal)
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Mendesia, Gracia, 1510 (ca.)-1569?
    • Nasi, Gracia, ca. 1510-1569
  • Sources

    • found: Harozen, Y. Donah Gratsyah u-medinat ... 1980.
    • found: Enc. Judaica, 1971(Nasi, Gracia (c. 1510-1569); Marrano stateswoman and patroness; b. in Portugal as Beatrice de Luna; married Francisco Mendes in 1528)
    • found: LC data base, 12-12-87(hdg.: Mendesia, Gracia, 1510 (ca.)-1569?; usage: Dona Gracia Mendes; Doña Gracia)
    • found: Encic. univ. ilus.:v. 37, p. 1141 (under Nasi, Josef: su tía Gracia, beg. 16th cent.)
    • found: L'ebrea errante : Donna Grazia Nasi, 2000.
    • found: Doña Gracia saved worlds, 2023:CIP t.p. (Doña Gracia) galley (Gracia Nasi; her family kept her Jewish name (Gracia) a secret, because all religions except Catholicism were against the law in 16th-century Portugal; outside her family, she was known as "Beatriz"; after she married, she was known as Doña Gracia)
    • found: Figuras da diáspora sefardita (séculos XVI-XVIII), 2022:p. 43 (Beatriz de Luna, who would become better known by the name she adopted after her return to Judaism in the Ottoman Empire, Grácia Nasi; born in Lisbon, probably in 1510)
    • notfound: Encic. ital., c1932;Grande encic. Vallardi, c1970;Enciclopedia Universal Illustrada.
  • Editorial Notes

    • [Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.]
    • [Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 1988-01-12: new
    • 2023-12-15: revised
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