- First name
- Pêro Roiz Rodrigues
- Last name
- Espinosa
- Date of Birth
- 1550/60
- Date of Death
- 1627
- Born in
- Vidigueira, Portugal
- Died in
- -
In 1605, Pêro and Mor fled from central Portugal (Vidigueira), making their way to the relatively safe French town of Nantes. In 1621 the Espinosa family relocated to Amsterdam. Pêro Espinosa was buried (row 9, no. 20) at Beth Haim (Spinoza, mercator & autodidactus, p. 4, I,B.). The burial register has the following text:
On 9 April 5387 [of] the year 1627 is buried Isaac de Espinosa, who came from Nantes to Rotterdam where he died, and he is buried in Beth Haim in Ouderkerk.
(‘Livro de Bet Haim’, quoted in Walther and Czelinski, vol. 1, p. 188, no. 17)
The fact that the burial entry declares that Michael’s father relocated to Rotterdam ‘where he died’ suggests that Pêro stayed in Amsterdam only for a short period of time (Spinoza, mercator & autodidactus, p. 4, I,B.).
Annotations
Alias: Isaac de Espinosa.