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13th–14th centuries

Riot

1283·Mayence

Toll
10

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

A rumor of ritual murder, originating in the Middle Rhine region, provoked a riot in Mayence: members of the community were killed, homes looted.

The unrest spread to other Rhenish localities in the months that followed; the chronicles mention Bacharach and the neighboring towns. King Rodolphe de Habsbourg, who asserted his protection over the Jews of the Empire, imposed fines on the cities and ordered the restitution of property.

This arrangement — the emperor collects, the emperor protects, the city kills and pays — defined the condition of the German communities for the entire century, and it would show its limits fifteen years later, when the bands of Rintfleisch swept through Franconia with no one to stop them.

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

*Memorbuch* de Nuremberg ; annales de Colmar.

At the same place6

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  3. août 1349Black Death Massacres« 6 000 » selon les chroniques
  4. 1438Expulsion of the Jews of Mainz by the citytoute la communauté
  5. 1462Expulsion of the Jews of Mainz by Archbishop Adolf II of Nassau, after the war of successiontoll not established
  6. 1470Expulsion of the Jews of Mainz, the secondtoute la communauté

In the same country299

  1. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  2. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  3. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  4. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  5. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  6. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée
  7. Juin 1096Massacre of Cologne refugees in the Middle Rhine towninconnu
  8. Juin 1096Massacre of Cologne refugees hidden in the Ruhr villageinconnu

And 291 more in the catalogue.

Event 222 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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