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13th–14th centuries

Armleder massacres

1337·Kitzingen

Toll
inconnu

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the community attacked by peasant bands

Kitzingen, on the Main, saw its community attacked by the peasant bands of Armleder. This was the second destruction in forty years, following that of the summer of Rintfleisch.

The Armleder were, more clearly than their predecessors, a movement of the poor: indebted peasants, day laborers, a few ruined petty nobles. Since pawnbroking was the only trade that had been left to the Jews, every agrarian crisis made them the designated target of those who could no longer pay.

Period :
13th–14th centuries
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

Nürnberger Memorbuch ; chroniques franconiennes.

At the same place2

  1. 1298Rintfleisch Massacresinconnu
  2. 1349Massacres of the Black Death in Franconiainconnu

In the same country303

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 295 more in the catalogue.

Event 301 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue

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