Tomás Trebiño de Sobremonte ( alias Geronymo Represa)

• General Notes
  • p. 136-140.  His wife was also burned at the stake.  His sister-in-law was Isabel Nunez.  While imprisoned by the Inquisition,  Antonio Vaez Casteloblanco, the brother of Simon Vaez Sevilla, acting as a "false priest", "circumcized [Trebino] wtih a sharp little stone." (p. 138).   He thereafter encouraged his son, Raphael de Sobremonte to also get circumcized.  Considered a "great dogmatist."  His punctiliousness for marranoreligiosity described is at variance with the story of circumcision.  He was considered a relapso.  He called his wife, "a saint of his law" p. 139.  "He communicated with his brother-in-law, Francisco Blandon, and with other prisoners using the Mexican language [probably Nahuatl]." (ibid).  Refusing meat during a fast, at night he ordered eggs and chocalate for dinner.  He was in prison for 5 years.  "By reckoning the time that he fasted and the fact that these fasts took place over a period of five years, he ought to have died from the rigors of such fasts if he had not been succored by compelling him to eat by force."  The night he was sentenced to burn, "he... removed the mask of posing to be a Catholic."  and said that he wanted to die, and that he would die on the same day, rather than the next, as he reckoned it in the Jewish manner.  "his mouth was gagged because he was uttering such blasphemies that this means was resorted to, although it is not approved, because of his insolent sallies. "   He had studied law at the University of Salamanca.  Also, he fathered children by the wives of a Spanish marquis and a local chieftain in Oaxaca