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13th–14th centuries

Innocent IV condemns the charge of ritual murder in the bull « Lachrymabilem Judaeorum »

1247·Rome

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Innocent IV, petitioned by the communities of Germany following several trials for ritual murder, published from Rome the bull Lachrymabilem Judaeorum, which condemns the accusation as a pretext for ransom and forbids the prosecution of Jews on this basis without evidence.

The bull was taken up by his successors for three centuries, always in the same terms, which says plainly enough that it was never applied. The accusation of ritual murder, born in England in the twelfth century, was to remain until the twentieth the most constant pretext for massacre in Europe, condemned by Rome and believed everywhere else.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Trials and executions
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Italie
Sources

Bulle Lachrymabilem Judaeorum ; série des bulles Sicut Judaeis ; Grayzel, The Church and the Jews.

At the same place30

  1. 139 av. J.-C.The praetor Cornelius Hispalus expels the Jews from Rome and Italy for religious propaganda (Valerius Maximus)toll not established
  2. 19Tiberius expels the Jews from Rome; 4,000 freedmen forcibly enrolled and sent to Sardinia (Tacitus, Josephus, Suetonius)4 000 déportés
  3. 95-96Persecution of Domitiantoll not established
  4. 1021Exécutions ordonnées par Benoît VIIIquelques-uns
  5. 1179Legal persecutiontoll not established
  6. 1205Bulle « Etsi Judaeos » d'Innocent IIItoll not established
  7. 1215Legal persecutiontoll not established
  8. 1231Gregory IX establishes the Papal Inquisition; converts who have returned to Judaism now fall under the tribunal of faithtoll not established
  9. 1244Burning of the Talmud ordered by Innocent IVtoll not established
  10. 1442Eugene IV renews the laws of separation and forbids Jews to study the Talmudtoll not established
  11. 1530Riot against the Jewish quarterinconnu
  12. 1533Clement VII forbids Jews in Italy from receiving fugitive new Christianstoll not established

And 18 more in the catalogue.

In the same country77

  1. 519Synagogues set on firetoll not established
  2. 925Massacre during the conquest of the city by the Fatimidsinconnu
  3. 1290-1294Angevin persecutionstoll not established
  4. 1290Forced conversions in the kingdom of Naplestoute la communauté
  5. 1377Riot against the Jewry of Sicilyinconnu
  6. 1475Simon of Trento affair, Jews tortured and executed~15
  7. 1480Expulsion of Jews from the city, who could only resettle in the Ghetto quartertoute la communauté
  8. 1485Expulsion of the Jews of Perugia, following sermons by the Observant Franciscanstoute la communauté

And 69 more in the catalogue.

Event 201 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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