Simon Váez Sevilla (Soburro or Oburro)

• General Notes
  • p.112-4.  Son of Gaspar Gonzalez (Gonzalves) Soburro and Leonor Vaez.  Both from Casteloblanco.  Father was a carnizero and estalajdor, as well as the local hangman.  Wife:  Doña Juana Enríquez.  Son:  Gaspar Vaez Sevilla.  Daughter:  Leonor Vaez Sevilla.  Brother:  Antonio Vaez Casteloblanco, alias Antonio Tirado.  Sister :  Elena de Silva.  Uncle and brother of the mother of Isabel de Silva, as well as Doña Leonor Vaez.  "He was also the full brother of MAria Aeres and the father of LEonor Vaez whom he fathered while still a bachelor in Casteloblanco.  Both of these women reside in Pisa where they are living freely as Jews."  pp112.  When his brother was imprisoned as a judaizer, he made a spectacle of it, because he alleged they were Old Christians from Santiago, Castile, to go along with his previous story.  He was of the Tribe of Levi, as the other Judaizers took pride in.  "He lived with a great deal of pomp and majesty.  He dealth with the other Judaizers who arrived and comae to his house with recommendations from Leghorn, Pisa, Spain and other parts....  He was like a leader of them all and he accommodated them and spread them around the country in business as traders." p. 113.    His secretary:  Sebastian Cardoso, "his brother-in-law and husband of Doña Michaela Enriquez, sister of his wife." p. 113.  Friend:  Juan MEndez de Villaviciosa.  Sevilla's nickname in the prisons=="Big Burro"