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Early Middle Ages and Crusades

Expulsion from the royal domain

1182·France

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Philip Augustus confiscates the property of Jews (edict of April) and expels them in July; the synagogue of Paris becomes a church

Philippe Auguste had the Jews of his domain arrested in the very first year of his reign, then released them for a ransom. The April edict went further: debts cancelled to the king's benefit, immovable property confiscated, and an order to leave the royal domains of France before the feast of Saint John.

The royal domain at that time covered only part of the country: the expelled made their way to Champagne, Burgundy, or the Plantagenet lands, where local lords received them. The synagogue of Paris was converted into a church, and the houses in the Jewish quarter sold off.

The measure was as much financial as religious, and it did not last: Philippe Auguste recalled the Jews in 1198, regulated their lending, and drew from them a regular income. The method — expel, confiscate, recall — was repeated by his successors until the general expulsion of 1394.

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

Rigord, *Gesta Philippi Augusti* ; ordonnances royales.

At the same place16

  1. 1007-1012Persecutions under Robert the Pious; expulsion from Mainz (1012); violence in Limoges, Roueninconnu
  2. 1181Philip Augustus cancels debts owed to the Jews in exchange for a fifth paid to the treasury, prelude to the expulsion of the following yeartoll not established
  3. 1239General seizure of copies of the Talmud ordered by Gregory IXtoll not established
  4. 1269Ordinance of Saint Louistoll not established
  5. 22 juillet 1306General arrest and expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  6. 1315Louis X recalls the Jews expelled in 1306, against heavy payment and for only twelve yearstoll not established
  7. 1321Affair of the leperscentaines
  8. 1322Charles IV expels the Jews from France anew, eight years after their recalltoute la communauté
  9. 17 septembre 1394Definitive expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  10. 1793-1794Closure of synagogues during the Terrorinconnu
  11. 17 mars 1808Legal persecutiontoll not established
  12. 3 oct. 1940Statute of the Jews of Vichy—

And 4 more in the catalogue.

In the same country172

  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. 1007Persecution under Robert the Piousinconnu
  5. 1010Bishop Alduin orders the community to convert or leave the town; violence in the wake of rumors about the destruction of the Holy Sepulchreinconnu
  6. Mai-juin 1096Massacre by crusaders en route to the Orient22
  7. Mai 1096First massacre of the First Crusadeinconnu
  8. 1146The crusaders of the Second Crusade attack the community, which defends itself and perishes in its houseinconnu

And 164 more in the catalogue.

Event 163 of 2483, in chronological order · Early Middle Ages and Crusades: 89 events in the catalogue

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