Dr. Abraham Curiel/ (Nunes da Costa) Vitoria (alias Fernao Lourenco Ramires

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Dr. Abraham Curiel/ (Nunes da Costa) Vitoria (alias Fernao Lourenco Ramires, birth 1545 Coimbra, Portugal, died 1 Oct 1609 Lissabon, son of Yaakov Curiel (Duarte Nunes Da Costa) and Gracia Nunes Vitoria
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Married 1575 Covilha, Portugal to:
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1) Gracia Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Nunes Ramirez, birth 1576, died 1577

2) Beatris Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Nunes Ramirez, birth 1578, died 1581

3) Guiomar Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Abigail da Costa Ramirez, birth 1582, died 1645

4) Catarina Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Sara de Fonseca, birth 1584

5) Jacob Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Duarte Nunes da Costa , birth 26 Sep 1587 Lissabon, Portugal, died 3 Apr 1664 Altona, Hamburg, occupation: Ambassadeur van Portugal in Hamburg
Ambassadeu van Portugal te Hamburg.
John IV of Portugal, discovering Curiels skill in financial matters, sent him (c. 1650) to Hamburg as his agent, andconferred upon him the title of "Hidalgo da casa Real" (Noble of the Royal House).
In 1655 he was elected a warden of the Portuguese Synagogue, to wich he donated a "Tebah" (fes kodes)
He was buried in the Portuguese cemetry at Hamburg-Altona in 1665.

CURIEL
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CURIEL, Marrano family, active in Jewish life in Amsterdam and Hamburg under the name of Nu?ez da Costa. The origin of the name is Curiel del Duero in Castile. Jews whose origin was from this village bore the name after they had left it. A certai n David Curiel from Avila, who decided to leave Castile in 1492, probably settled in Coimbra, with which the Curiel family became identified. It seems that in Coimbra the family descended from Abigail Curiel, alias Guiomar da Costa, after the forc ed conversion of 1497. Abigail was kept as a mistress for several years by Jeronimo de Saldanha, a nobleman with some Jewish ancestry, who was the father of a son raised in Coimbra as a Jew or Crypto-Jew. Hence the claim of the Curiel family to Po rtuguese nobility. Part of the family moved to Lisbon, some escaped from Portugal and reverted to Judaism, others moved to the New World. Several members of the family were tried by the Inquisition in Coimbra. These trials reveal much about the Je wish practices maintained by the family. Several members of the family lived in Covilh?. The departure of the Curiel family from Portugal was the result of indiscreet correspondence between the Jewish branch of the family living in Italy and th e Portuguese New Christian branch. JACOB CURIEL, alias Duarte Nu?ez da Costa (1587-1665), born a Marrano in Lisbon, moved via Pisa and Florence to Amsterdam and later to Hamburg. Having made himself useful to members of the royal house of Portuga l in Hamburg, he was made Portuguese diplomatic representative. His elder son, MOSES (Jer?nimo Nu?ez da Costa; died 1697), was Portuguese agent in Amsterdam, where he was prominent in the Sephardi community and represented his coreligionists in ca ses before the Dutch authorities. Jacob's younger son, SOLOMON (Manoel Nu?ez da Costa), succeeded his father in Hamburg. The family held diplomatic positions in both cities until the late 18th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Roth, Marranos, 303; ESN, 178; J. Caro Baroja, Jud?os en la Espa?a moderna y contemporanea, 2 (1962), 243-4; I. Da Costa, Noble Families among the Sephardic Jews (1936), index; H. Kellenbenz, Sephardim an der unteren Elbe (1958), index; W.C. Piete rse, Daniel Levi de Barrios als geschiedschrijverà (1968), index. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Samuel, in: Jewish Historical Studies, 31 (1988-90), 111-36 (also in: E. Samuel, At the End of the Earth, (2004), 43-67).
[Kenneth R. Scholberg /
Yom Tov Assis (2nd ed.)]
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Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.
Married Amsterdam to:
Lea Abas Lopes Ramires alias (ynes Lopes Jorge), birth 1589 Amsterdam, daughter of Manuel Jorge Abas/ Lopes Ramire and Violante Mendes de Brito
Woonden o.a. in Florence, Haaren Amsterdam

6) Luiza Curiel/ Da Fonsec, birth 1589, died 1650

7) Beatriz Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Sara Henriques, birth 1592, died 1679

8) David Curiel/ da Fonseca (alias Lopo Ramires, birth 11 May 1594 Lissabon, died 4 Oct 1666 Rotterdam, occupation: koopman
Cavalheiro Fidalgo da Casa Real, by King Jo?o IV of Portugal 1642
Married 1 Jun 1617 Amsterdam to:
Rachel Naar/ da Costa - Alias Maria de Pin, birth 18 Dec 1593 Tomar, Portugal, died 8 Mar 1650 Amsterdam, daughter of Diogo de Pina and Guiomar da Costa
Chuppa in de Synagogue (Esnoga)

9) Bernardo Curiel/ Da Fonesca (alias Nunes Ramirez

10) Gracia [Curiel) Da Fonseca (alias Nunes Ramirez)

11) Isabel Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Esther Da Fonseca, birth 1602, died 1692

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