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Early Middle Ages and Crusades

Jews killed by Crusaders

1179·Boppard

Toll
13

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

The body of a woman was found in the Rhine, near Boppard. Rumor accused the town's Jews, who were put to death by men on their way to the Holy Land.

The Hebrew chronicles report that the bodies were thrown into the river and that the community of Coblence later obtained permission to gather them for burial — a gesture that, in these accounts, carries as much weight as the murder itself. Emperor Frédéric Barberousse demanded reparations from the town, as he did on other occasions: Jews fell under the imperial chamber, and killing them was an affront to the treasury as much as to the persons.

This protection was worth only as much as the emperor's presence, and Boppard has since figured in the lists of martyrs read in the Rhenish synagogues.

Period :
Early Middle Ages and Crusades
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

Éphraïm de Bonn, *Sefer Zekhirah* ; *Memorbuch* de Nuremberg.

At the same place1

  1. 1349Black Death massacres in the Rhinelandinconnu

In the same country304

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 296 more in the catalogue.

Event 159 of 2483, in chronological order · Early Middle Ages and Crusades: 89 events in the catalogue

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