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13th–14th centuries

Accusation of ritual murder, massacre

1235·Fulda

Toll
34

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At Christmas, a miller's house burned near Fulda and his sons perished in it. The accusation leveled against the Jews of the town was not merely that of murder: it was claimed that they had collected the blood of the children for their own use. This is the first time that blood is placed at the heart of the accusation, and it is in this form that it would spread for seven centuries.

The bodies were brought to Hagenau before the emperor Frederick II, who refused to rule alone. He convened an assembly of scholars and converts from across the Western world, asked them what Jewish Law prescribed regarding blood, and the following year published a privilege declaring the Jews of the Empire innocent of this charge and forbidding that it be raised again.

The document prevented nothing: the accusation of ritual murder reappeared at Valréas, at Munich, at Oberwesel, and the papacy was compelled to condemn it in turn.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

*Annales d'Erfurt* ; *Annales Marbacenses* ; privilège de Frédéric II (1236).

At the same place1

  1. 1349Black Death massacresinconnu

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 191 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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