13th–14th centuries
Philip the Fair orders inquisitors to pursue Jews who receive converts returned to Judaism
1299·Paris
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From Paris, Philippe le Bel ordered the inquisitors to prosecute Jews who harbored converts who had returned to Judaism, and to seize their property. The measure applied to the kingdom of France the doctrine established by Grégoire IX.
It bore most heavily on the South, where the forced conversions carried out by the Pastoureaux were soon to produce mass returns to the faith. The king found direct advantage in it: the property of those condemned reverted to him, and he was in need of money. The general expulsion of thirteen hundred and six, which followed shortly after, was carried out according to the same calculation.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Ordonnances des rois de France ; Bernard Gui, Practica inquisitionis ; Gross, Gallia Judaica.