Domingo de Subildegui (died 1 November 1610 in
Logrono, Spain) was a Spanish alleged witch. He was one of the people charged with sorcery in the
Basque witch trials
The Basque witch trials of the seventeenth century represent the last attempt at rooting out supposed witchcraft from Navarre by the Spanish Inquisition, after a series of episodes erupted during the sixteenth century following the end of milit ...
(1609–1614), and one of only six people executed of 7,000 who were accused.
He came from Ezpeleta (Lapurdi) in Navarre. He was arrested by the inquisitor Valle Alvarado in 1609. He was charged with witchcraft and participation in the witches' sabbath in Zugarramurdi. He was investigated by the Spanish Inquisition in Logroño.
Of about 7,000 people accused in the Basque witch trials, only six were ultimately executed: Domingo de Subildegui,
María de Echachute
María de Echachute (died in Logroño, 1 November 1610) was one of the victims of the Basque witch trials, and one of six people executed by over hundreds of accused.
She was from Ezpeleta (Lapurdi) in Navarre. She was arrested by the inquisitor ...
,
Graciana Xarra,
Maria Baztan de Borda,
Maria de Arburu and
Petri de Joangorena. They were condemned to be executed by the Inquisition because they had repeatedly refused to confess, regret and ask for mercy, despite having been accused for a number of sorcery acts by several different people.
[Gustav Henningsen: ]
The Salazar Documents: Inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frías and Others on the
' p. 138
He and five others were burned alive at the stake on an
autodafé in Logrono 1 November 1610, alongside the effigies of five other condemned people, who had died in prison prior to the execution.
[Burns, William E., Witch hunts in Europe and America: an encyclopedia, Greenwood, Westport, Conn., 2003]
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17th-century Spanish people
Spanish people executed for witchcraft
1610 deaths
People executed by Spain by burning
17th-century executions by Spain