Juan de Ribera (b1532-d1611) was the Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia.
He used all his civil and religious power to pressure Philip III to expel the Moors, which was accomplished in 1609.
Ribera despised the Moriscos as heretics and traitors, a dislike he shared with much of the Christian population of Valencia. Let's take a Look...
* Report by Karla Ingleton Darocas, Hons. B.A. (KarlaDarocas.com)
Together with the Duke of Lerma / Marqués de Denia, Ribera helped convince King Felipe III to expel the Moors.
Ribera helped sell the plan by pointing out that all the Moriscos' property could be confiscated to raise money for the treasury.
In 1609, the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain was decreed.
Ribera's original proposal was in fact even more extreme: he advocated the enslavement of the entire Morisco population to work in the galleys, mines and abroad. Ribera said that Felipe III could do this "without any scruples of conscience, but this proposal was rejected.
If the Moriscos were to be expelled, Ribera advocated at least enslaving and Christianising the children of the Moriscos, "for the good of their souls", and banishing the parents. This too was rejected, although children under 16 who wished to remain in Spain were allowed, an offer that very few accepted.
Photo by Karla Darocas... is a statue of Ribera in the courtyard of the parish church of Sant Domingo next to the Convent of Sant Domingo
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