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13th–14th centuries

Lepers Affair

1321·Uzès

Toll
inconnu

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the community attacked

The community of Uzès, in Languedoc, was attacked during the lepers' affair. The town had an ancient Jewish quarter, mentioned as early as the Carolingian era.

The surviving Jews of the Midi were driven from the kingdom the following year, less than ten years after having been recalled there. Between the Pastoureaux, the lepers and the expulsion, three years sufficed to erase Languedocian Judaism, which had given Jewish culture the translators of Lunel and the commentators of Narbonne.

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

Gross, Gallia Judaica ; Chronique de Jean de Saint-Victor ; archives du Languedoc.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Uzès.

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