Michel de Nostredmam was born on December 14, 1503, in the town of Saint-Remy-de-Provence to a family of Sephardic Jews (who as a result of persecution migrated to France from the Iberian Peninsula) converted to Catholicism in the 15th century. The family legend, retold by Cesar de Nostredam in The Chronicle of Provence, states that the ancestors of the fortuneteller served as healers at the courts of Rene Dobroi and the Duke of Calabria. However, based on the available facts, one can only say that they were sufficiently educated and prosperous people. The father of the future foreteller, Joom de Gasone (after baptism, changed his name to the Catholic Nostrands) (1470-1547) was a notary, grandfather Guy Gassone (1430-1484) traded grain and worked as a notary in Avignon,
