limpieza de sangre
Ancestral lineage verification
Limpieza de sangre (Spanish, "purity of blood") was a doctrine in Spain and its colonies requiring proof of exclusively Christian ancestry—no Jewish or Muslim forebears—for access to positions, guilds, or institutions.
The concept emerged in fifteenth-century Spain and persisted for centuries, functioning as an early form of codified racial discrimination based on lineage rather than religious practice.
- purityUncontaminated quality
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
nobility · lineage · Reconquista · caste · exclusion · genealogy · Spain · persecution · certificate · honor · tainted · Jewish · Moorish · baptism · suspicion · heritage · tribunal · pedigree
- Inquisitioninquisition, heretic, inquisitors, heretics, heresy trial
- Colonial Archivesroyal decrees, parish registers, land titles, property deeds, testaments
- ReconquistaReconquista, Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand, Granada, Isabella
- Golden Age SpainSiglo de Oro, Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Philip II
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- Sephardic JewsLadino, Judeo-Spanish, Toledo, Lisbon, Barcelona
limpieza de sangrereligious tolerance
Acceptance of differing faiths
pluralism · inclusivism · integration · multiculturalism · racial equality
limpieza de sangreracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
miscegenation · anti-racism · racial integration · cosmopolitanism · egalitarianism
sangre, limp, limpid, limpidity, sanguine, sanguinary, exsanguinate, exsanguination