um empresário português , no tempo da inquisição (Filipe III) em Ribadeo

A Survivor of the Inquisition: Business of a Portuguese Entrepreneur in Ribadeo in the time of Felipe III

When on July 23, 1624 the Council of the Kingdom of Galicia signed with Don Juan Pardo Osorio the contract for “the factory of four ships to go to the guard and security of the Kingdom of galicia, to be finished and put on a candle in the Puerto de Ribadeo, where the factory of the so-called four ships is supposed to be” was not the first time that a big contract for the Navy had the gunners of our bank as a stage.

And it is that almost two decades before, during the reign of Felipe III, in the state accounts of the years 1606-10 there is already a charge of 13,327 ducados “for the afterrest and dispatch of four gallons that he manufactured in Ribadeo Juan Núñez Correa to serve a The Army of His His Majesty.

Being an interesting fact the fact of the construction of four gallons in Ribadeo during the reign of Felipe III, no less the character they were hired to: Juan Núñez Correa. This man was an important Portuguese entrepreneur, who had lived for several years in Pernambuco (Brazil) where he had a large family business. There the Inquisition for being a descendant of converts, accusing him of working on Sundays, having a crucifixion in the bathroom and having a sex with the wife of a partner whom he had sent on a business trip nothing less than… Angola!

Prisoner of the Inquisition was brought to Lisbon for trial, from whose prison he was released thanks to his important business and riches, moving to Madrid from where he continued to serve his Brazilian businesses. In the Spanish capital, he formalized several ultra-marine contracts with the Crown, then moving to Sevilla where he was again arrested accused of coaxation and malpourishment, being seized much of his capital. Back in Madrid and pleaded not guilty for lack of evidence, the following years dedicated them to pleading to get their money back, but the State was in the most absolute bankruptcy. Maybe the signing of the Galleons was a temporary compensation, but… Why did the Ribadeo casters choose this character to build them? Maybe someday we’ll know.

Juan Núñez Correa, the great Portuguese businessman of such a random life, who made perhaps for the first time the name of the Ribadeo’s hard-working men, died in Madrid in 1625 at the age of eighty-two, a victim of a brain tumor that I already had it disabled since a long time ago.

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