Susana Ben Susón, nicknamed La Susona, was a young Jewish convert from Seville and features in a legend. She was the daughter of don Diego Susón a Jewish convert. Jews were an oppressed minority in Seville in the late Middle Ages and in 1391 a violent pogrom in the Jewish quarter (la Judería) reduced the Jewish population of 500 families by two thirds through forced conversions, expulsion and murder. In 1478 the Inquisition was founded in Spain to uphold religious orthodoxy in the Spanish realm and to monitor and prevent conversos from engaging in Jewish practices, which, as Christians, they were supposed to have given up.