Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: According to some authors , he was descended from Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism after 1492 , and one of his forebears had been burned by the Inquisition for secretly continuing to practice Judaism .
Simplified: He was descended from Jews who were made to converted to Catholicism after 1492 . One of his forebears had been burned by the Inquisition for secretly continuing to practice Judaism .