13th–14th centuries
Lepers' Affair
1321·Paris
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Jews arrested and burned, accused of having had lepers poison the wells
The year following the Pastoureaux, a rumor spread that lepers had poisoned the wells of the kingdom, and that they had done so in the pay of the Jews, who were themselves paid by a Muslim king. Jews were arrested in Paris and burned.
The accusation of well-poisoning appears here for the first time in its completed form, with its chain of instigators: it would be reused exactly as it was during the Black Death, twenty-seven years later, dispensing with the lepers. Philippe V confiscated the property and expelled the survivors from the royal domain.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Chronique de Jean de Saint-Victor ; Guillaume de Nangis, continuation ; Ginzburg, Le Sabbat des sorcières.