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13th–14th centuries

Black Death massacres in Catalonia

1348·Cervera

Toll
18

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

the community attacked

En Catalogne, l'épidémie déclencha des attaques contre les calls, les quartiers juifs. Celui de Cervera fut assailli et des Juifs y furent tués.

Le mot call vient probablement du latin callis, la ruelle, et désigne dans les terres catalanes ce que l'on appelle ailleurs juiverie ou aljama. Ces quartiers étaient souvent fermés, adossés aux remparts ou au château, ce qui les rendait défendables — et qui, une fois la porte forcée, en faisait des pièges.

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

Chroniques catalanes ; Baer, History of the Jews in Christian Spain.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Cervera.

In the same country109

  1. v. 300-306Council of Elviretoll not established
  2. 418Forced conversion of the community (letter of Severus)toll not established
  3. 613-694Sisebut (613)toll not established
  4. 629-633Dagobert I orders the baptism or expulsion of the Jews of the kingdom (Fredegar); the Fourth Council of Toledo forbids forcing baptism but retains already baptized childrentoll not established
  5. 681-694Councils XII and XVIItoll not established
  6. 694XVIIth Council of Toledotoute la communauté
  7. 1013Berber plunder of the city, Jews killed and driven outinconnu
  8. 1063French knights sent to fight at Barbastro attacked communities on the way; Pope Alexander II wrote to the bishops of Spain to forbid itinconnu

And 101 more in the catalogue.

Event 334 of 2483, in chronological order · 13th–14th centuries: 398 events in the catalogue