13th–14th centuries
Armleder massacres
1336-1338·Alsace, Franconie, Souabe
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Bands of peasants and minor nobles, recognizable by the leather armband that earned them the name *Armleder*, swept through Alsace, Franconia, and Swabia, destroying the Jewish communities of the towns.
The first leader, Arnold von Uissigheim, was executed; an innkeeper named Zimberlin took over the troop and led it for two more years. The imperial cities finally organized themselves: a peace league concluded between them and the lords put an end to the bands, and several cities — Strasbourg, Colmar — protected their Jews, who were a part of their revenues.
This was the last tremor before the Black Death, ten years later, which would strike the same regions and complete what the *Armleder* had begun.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France et Allemagne
Chroniques alsaciennes ; annales de Wurtzbourg ; *Memorbuch* de Nuremberg.