Crescas (, he, קרשקש) is a
Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former
Crown of Aragon
The Crown of Aragon ( , ) an, Corona d'Aragón ; ca, Corona d'Aragó, , , ; es, Corona de Aragón ; la, Corona Aragonum . was a composite monarchy ruled by one king, originated by the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of ...
. Crescas is a common name among Jews of southern France and Catalonia.
There have been a number of scholars and rabbis sharing that surname, including:
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Abiathar Crescas, a 15th-century Jewish physician and astrologer, doctor to King
John II of Aragon
John II ( Spanish: ''Juan II'', Catalan: ''Joan II'', Aragonese: ''Chuan II'' and eu, Joanes II; 29 June 1398 – 20 January 1479), called the Great (''el Gran'') or the Faithless (''el Sense Fe''), was King of Aragon from 1458 until his death ...
(1458–79)
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Astruc Don Crescas
* Meshullam ben Machir,
Don Bonet Crescas de Lunel, French scholar who settled at
Perpignan, where he died in 1306
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Hasdai Crescas
Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (; he, חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish philosopher and a renowned halakhist (teacher of Jewish law). Along with Maimonides ("Rambam"), Gersonides ("Ralbag"), ...
(, Barcelona – 1410/1411), a Catalan Jewish philosopher, halakhist
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Israel ben Joseph Halevi Crescas Caslari, known as "Crescas Caslari", an Aragonese-French Jewish physician and poet
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Mordecai En Crescas of
Orange
Orange most often refers to:
*Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis''
** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower
*Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
* ...
* Don
Crescas Vidal of
Perpignan (fr)
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Vidal de Caslar Crescas
Cresques
Cresques () is the
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
standardized variant of the Jewish name Crescas ( he, קרשקש)
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Abraham Cresques (? – 1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma de Mallorca
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Jehuda Cresques
Jehudà Cresques (, 1360-1410), also known as Jafudà Cresques, Jaume Riba, and Cresques lo Juheu ("Cresques the Jew"), was a converso cartographer in the early 15th century.
Son of Abraham Cresques, a famous Jewish cartographer, he was born in ...
(also Jafudà Cresques; 1350 ? – 1427 ?)
Cresques Abiatar, a Jewish physician in Catalan Aragon Kingdom
External links
Cresques entry at Behind the Name
References
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Catalan-language surnames
Jewish surnames
Jewish families
Spanish families
French families