13th–14th centuries
Castilian civil war (Henry of Trastamare)
1355·Tolède
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The Castilian civil war set King Pedro I against his half-brother Henri de Trastamare. The latter's partisans entered Toledo and made their way to the Alcaná, the quarter of merchants and Jews, which had sided with the king.
The plundering lasted and claimed many victims; the fortified *judería* held out, while the open section was destroyed. The pretender's propaganda portrayed Pedro as the "king of the Jews," supported by them and governed by his treasurer Samuel ha-Lévi Abulafia — the very man who had built the synagogue of the Transit, and whom the king would later have put to death under torture.
The war completed the entrenchment of the idea that the Jews were a faction. When Henri prevailed, he levied crushing contributions upon them while also protecting them: he needed their finances as much as he had exploited their unpopularity.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Military repression
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Espagne
Pero López de Ayala, *Chronique de Pierre Iᵉʳ* ; documents du chapitre de Tolède.