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Early Middle Ages and Crusades

Persecution under Robert the Pious

1007·Rouen

Toll
inconnu

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

conversion or death imposed on the community, according to the chronicle of Jacob bar Yequtiel

The persecution that the Hebrew chronicle of Jacob bar Yequtiel places under Robert the Pious struck Rouen, where the community was ordered to choose between baptism and death. The account reports that mothers killed their children to spare them the baptismal font, and that Jacob bar Yequtiel went to Rome to plead the cause of his people before the pope.

The text, late and polemical, was long regarded with suspicion; historians today recognize in it the reflection of a real wave of violence, linked to the millenarian upheavals of those years and to news arriving from the East. Rouen was then the principal Jewish center of the kingdom, and its school's influence reached as far as the Rhineland.

Period :
Early Middle Ages and Crusades
Type :
Persecution
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
France
Sources

Chronique de Jacob bar Yequtiel ; Raoul Glaber, Histoires ; Ademar de Chabannes.

At the same place3

  1. Mai 1096First massacre of the First Crusadeinconnu
  2. 1942Roundups of Rouenbilan non établi
  3. 17 mai 2024Incendiary attack against the synagogue, the attacker shot down by policedégâts

In the same country183

  1. 576Bishop Avitus has the synagogue destroyed; Jews must choose between baptism and exile to Marseille (Gregory of Tours)>500 baptisés de force
  2. 576-591Forced conversions and expulsions ordered by bishops Théodore, Ferréol and Sulpice; Grégoire the Great protests against forced baptismsinconnu
  3. 582Chilperic I imposes baptism on the Jews of the kingdom; the merchant Priscus, who refuses, is murderedtoll not established
  4. 1010Bishop Alduin orders the community to convert or leave the town; violence in the wake of rumors about the destruction of the Holy Sepulchreinconnu
  5. Mai-juin 1096Massacre by crusaders en route to the Orient22
  6. 1146The crusaders of the Second Crusade attack the community, which defends itself and perishes in its houseinconnu
  7. 1147Rabbenou Tam wounded by five blows from crusaders on the second day of Shavuot, saved by a passing lordtoll not established
  8. 1147Massacre of the community by the Crusaders of the Second Crusadeinconnu

And 175 more in the catalogue.

Event 96 of 2483, in chronological order · Early Middle Ages and Crusades: 89 events in the catalogue

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