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Early Middle Ages and Crusades

Riot at the coronation of Richard the Lionheart

1189·Londres

Toll
~30

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

On the day of the coronation of Richard Cœur de Lion, the Jewish notables of the kingdom had presented themselves at Westminster to offer their gifts. Entry was refused to them; the crowd interpreted this refusal as an authorization.

The riot spread to the Juiverie of London: houses were broken into and set ablaze, and those who had been unable to reach the Tower or the homes of Christian neighbours were killed in the street. Among them was Jacob d'Orléans, a Talmudist who had come from France, a disciple of Rabbenou Tam. The king had several rioters hanged and dispatched letters forbidding anyone to harm the Jews; he then departed for the crusade.

His departure left the field open: the violence resumed the following winter in the towns of the East of the kingdom and culminated in York in March.

Period :
Early Middle Ages and Crusades
Type :
Pogrom
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Royaume-Uni
Sources

Roger de Hoveden, *Chronica* ; Guillaume de Newburgh, *Historia rerum Anglicarum* ; Richard de Devizes.

At the same place6

  1. 1255After the Lincoln affair, eighteen Jews hanged in London for refusing to acknowledge the jurydix-huit pendus
  2. 1264War of the Barons~500
  3. 1847-1858Exclusion from Parliamenttoll not established
  4. Août 1947Anti-Jewish riots of August 1947dégâts
  5. 20 août 1978Grenade attack against an El Al crew bus1
  6. 26-27 juill. 1994Car bomb attacks against the Israeli embassy and then Balfour Houseune vingtaine de blessés

In the same country29

  1. 1144First European ritual murder accusation (William of Norwich)toll not established
  2. 1187-1192Fiscal persecution by Richard the Lionhearttoll not established
  3. 1188"Saladin Tithe": Jews of England taxed at a quarter of their movable goods, those of France at extraordinary sums, to finance the Third Crusadetoll not established
  4. 1190Massacres of the Third Crusade in England~150 à York ; 57 à Bury
  5. 1190Attacks of the Third Crusade in eastern England after Yorkinconnu
  6. 1190The Jews take refuge in the royal castle and escape the massacre; their houses are plunderedinconnu
  7. Févr.-mars 1190First massacres of the Third Crusade in Englanddizaines
  8. 16-17 mars 1190The Jews sheltering in Clifford Tower~150

And 21 more in the catalogue.

Event 167 of 2483, in chronological order · Early Middle Ages and Crusades: 89 events in the catalogue

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