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13th–14th centuries

Accusation of ritual murder, executions

1267·Pforzheim

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The body of a young girl was retrieved from the Enz, at Pforzheim, and the accusation of ritual murder followed immediately. Members of the community were arrested, convicted, and executed.

The affair had a particular legacy: the Dominican Thomas de Cantimpré incorporated it into his collection of exempla, where it served to establish the veracity of the accusation for generations of preachers. A local cult formed around the young Marguerite, with a tomb and a pilgrimage.

That the papacy had condemned this type of accusation twenty years earlier — Innocent IV had done so after Valréas — counted for nothing against any of these accounts: preaching prevailed over papal bulls.

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

Thomas de Cantimpré, *Bonum universale de apibus* ; *Memorbuch* de Nuremberg ; annales souabes.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Pforzheim.

In the same country305

  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 297 more in the catalogue.

Event 216 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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