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Baron Diego Pereira d' Aguilar

Baron Diego Pereira d' Aguilar

Male 1699 - 1759  (60 years)    Has 10 ancestors and 76 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Diego Pereira d' Aguilar 
    Prefix Baron 
    Birth 1699  Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 10 Aug 1759  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Portuguese Jews Burial Ground, Mile End Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 3 Siblings 
    Person ID I829767  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2013 

    Father Manuel Lópes Pereira,   b. Mogadouro, Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Branca Teresa 
    Family ID F366868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Simha da Fonseca   d. 1755 
    Marriage 1722 
    Children 
     1. Aron d' Aguilar,   b. 1725
    +2. Sarah d' Aguilar,   b. 1728   d. 12 Dec 1801 (Age 73 years)
     3. Rachel d' Aguilar,   b. 1730   d. Oct 1789 (Age 59 years)
     4. Rebecca d' Aguilar,   b. 1732   d. 10 January 1803, Clapton, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     5. Hannah d' Aguilar,   b. 1734   d. 25 Jan 1763 (Age 29 years)
     6. Esther d' Aguilar,   b. 1739   d. 30 Sep 1791 (Age 52 years)
    +7. Baron Ephraim Lópes Pereira d' Aguilar,   b. 1739, Wien, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Mar 1802, Shaftesbury Place, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    +8. Leah d' Aguilar,   b. Cir 1742   d. 11 Nov 1808 (Age 66 years)
     9. David d' Aguilar,   b. Cir 1744   d. 1790 (Age 46 years)
    +10. Judith d' Aguilar,   b. 08 May 1747   d. 19 Nov 1821 (Age 74 years)
     11. Abigail d' Aguilar,   b. 12 May 1749   d. 1822 (Age 72 years)
     12. Joseph d' Aguilar,   b. 1750   d. 31 Jul 1774 (Age 24 years)
     13. Solomon d' Aguilar,   b. 1752   d. 28 Oct 1817 (Age 65 years)
    +14. Benjamin d' Aguilar,   b. 1753   d. 12 Jul 1813 (Age 60 years)
     15. Hananel d' Aguilar,   b. 1754-1755   d. 28 Nov 1809 (Age 54 years)
    Family ID F366704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2013 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1699 - Portugal Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 Aug 1759 - London, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Wikipedia
    • He was a Marrano financier, born in Lisbon, Portugal, where his father held the tobacco monopoly. He himself farmed the tobacco revenue in Portugal before establishing branches of his banking house in London and Amsterdam.
      After the War of the Spanish Succession, in 1722 Diego Lopes Pereira followed Charles VI to London, where he established a firm in the City called Pereira and Lima. It was one of the Jewish firms which imported gold from Portugal. (Other Jewish merchants who did so included Francis Salvador and Moses Mendes da Costa.)
      The firm continued to prosper when in 1736 he went to Vienna, to make proposals to the then Empress to farm the tobacco and snuff duties, in which he was very successful, so much so that the Empress appointed him her cashier. Immediately on his arrival, he reverted to Judaism (i.e. probably he was circumcised; he probably practised Judaism privately already), adopting the name of Moses and championing other Jews whenever persecution threatened. To this day they hold an annual service in his honour in the Sephardi synagogue in Vienna.
      In 1726 the emperor created him Baron d?Aguilar, Maria Theresa made him a Privy Councillor, and he was responsible for building the imperial palace at Schönbrunn. Ultimately, the Spanish government requested the extradition of ?this wealthy renegade? for trial by the Holy Office. In order to avoid being returned to Portugal to face the Inquisition, in 1757 he moved, with his fourteen children, together with his retinue of servants and slaves, to London, where he was active in the Sephardi community. Presumably the family originally came from Aguilar De Campóo, a fortress town in Castile, in the District of Palencia, northern Spain, before the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492.

      Matriculated his arms: Gules an eagle or beneath a plate, on a chief argent three hillocks vert on each a pear or slipped vert [Rietstap]



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