Early Middle Ages and Crusades
The Jews take refuge in the royal castle and escape the massacre; their houses are plundered
1190·Lincoln
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During the wave of attacks that followed the coronation of Richard I, the Jews of Lincoln took refuge in time within the royal castle and escaped the fate of those of York. Their houses were looted and their pledges carried off.
The community of Lincoln was one of the wealthiest in England; it recovered and counted, two generations later, among the most prominent in the kingdom, before the affair of little saint Hugh and the general expulsion. The refuge in the castle, which saved it here, was in York the trap in which the massacre was carried out.
- Period :
- Early Middle Ages and Crusades
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Royaume-Uni
Roger de Howden, Chronica ; Guillaume de Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum ; rôles de l'Échiquier des Juifs.