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13th–14th centuries

Crusade of the Pastoureaux

1320·Gimont

Toll
inconnu

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the attacked community

The Jewish community of Gimont, in Gascony, was attacked by the Pastoureaux during their descent toward the south. The bastide lay on the road that led from the Landes to the Toulousain.

The conversions wrested during those weeks subsequently posed a problem that the Inquisition resolved in its own way: those who returned to Judaism were prosecuted as relapsed heretics, even though their baptism had been obtained with a knife at their throat. Pope Jean XXII, in Avignon, proved on this point more rigorous than his predecessors.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Military repression
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
France
Sources

Registres de Jacques Fournier ; lettres de Jean XXII ; Gross, Gallia Judaica.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Gimont.

In the same country186

  1. 576Bishop Avitus has the synagogue destroyed; Jews must choose between baptism and exile to Marseille (Gregory of Tours)>500 baptisés de force
  2. 576-591Forced conversions and expulsions ordered by bishops Théodore, Ferréol and Sulpice; Grégoire the Great protests against forced baptismsinconnu
  3. 582Chilperic I imposes baptism on the Jews of the kingdom; the merchant Priscus, who refuses, is murderedtoll not established
  4. 1007Persecution under Robert the Piousinconnu
  5. 1010Bishop Alduin orders the community to convert or leave the town; violence in the wake of rumors about the destruction of the Holy Sepulchreinconnu
  6. Mai-juin 1096Massacre by crusaders en route to the Orient22
  7. Mai 1096First massacre of the First Crusadeinconnu
  8. 1146The crusaders of the Second Crusade attack the community, which defends itself and perishes in its houseinconnu

And 178 more in the catalogue.

Event 274 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue