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Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182

Philip Augustus confiscated the lands and buildings of the Jews of his own domain in 1182 and drove them out; he readmitted them in 1198.

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Philip II of France annulled loans in 1181, kept a fifth, confiscated lands and buildings in 1182 Primary record 1
Kingdom of France a charge of ritual murder was made against Jews; it was false Primary record 1 2
His chronicler Rigord repeated a story that Jews killed a Christian every Easter. The Fordham editors write that the accusation of ritual murder cost the lives of innocent people. The charge was false.

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The Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182 CE (with the chronicle of Rigord), Internet Jewish History Sourcebook, Fordham University. Primary record
The next year (1181) he annulled all loans made to Christians by Jews, taking instead a comfortable twenty per cent for himself.
A year later (1182) he confiscated all the lands and buildings of the Jews and drove them out of the lands governed by himself directly.
Several years later (1198) Philip Augustus readmitted the Jews and carefully regulated their banking business so as to reserve large profits to himself through a variety of taxes and duties.
That he himself actually believed that Jews committed ritual murders is difficult to determine.
This brilliant but unscrupulous ruler, then about fifteen years of age, needed money and help to strengthen his hold on the throne and to fight the powerful feudal barons.
He gained these objectives, in part, by confiscating Jewish wealth; thus he secured not only money but also the goodwill of the Church and of the Christian debtors.
The Ritual Murder Accusation at Blois, May, 1171 (Ephraim ben Jacob), Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University. Primary record
The accusation that Jews require Christian blood for their Passover ritual has been made against the Jews from that time on down to the present day in practically all lands and has cost the lives of hundreds of innocent Jewish men, women, and children.

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