by hadassah | Aug 31, 2026 | The State and the Jews
King Edward I of England, 1290 Royal Document Edward, by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine, to his treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, greetings. In the third year of our reign, moved by concern for the honor of God and...
by hadassah | Aug 31, 2026 | The State and the Jews
Count Charles of Anjou and Maine. 1289 Comital Document Charles II, by the grace of God king of Jerusalem and Sicily, prince of Achaea, count of Anjou, Maine and Forcalquier, sends greetings to all who shall see these present letters. By this letter we make...
by hadassah | Aug 31, 2026 | The State and the Jews
Duke John of Brittany, 1239 Ducal Document To all who shall see these present letters, John, Duke of Brittany and Count of Richmond, sends greetings. Know that, at the request of the bishops, abbots, barons and vassals of Brittany, and after carefully...
by hadassah | Aug 30, 2026 | The State and the Jews
King Edward I of England, 1275, Late-Thirteenth-Century Latin Narrative In November of that year, all the Jews throughout England were arrested on a single day and imprisoned in London for clipping the king’s coinage. Many Christians were accused by Jews of...
by hadassah | Aug 30, 2026 | The State and the Jews
King Philip Augustus of France, 1192, Rigord of St. Denis Several months later in that same year, on the fifteenth day before the Kalends of April, which was March 18, 1192, King Philip was at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. There he heard that Jews had inflicted a...
by hadassah | Aug 30, 2026 | The State and the Jews
King Philip Augustus of France, 1180, Rigord of St. Denis’s Early-Thirteenth-Century Chronicle of King Philip Augustus Philip Augustus had often heard that the Jews living in Paris went secretly into underground chambers every year at Easter or during the holy...
