Blood libel emerges at Norwich
1144
A twelve-year-old boy named William was found dead in woods outside Norwich. A local monk soon began claiming the Jewish community had murdered him in a ritual mockery of Christ's Passion. The accusation - the first of its kind recorded in Europe - would be repeated for eight hundred years.
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Also in 1144 (3 other events on record)
- Consecration of Saint-Denis · Europe · Culture
- Fall of Edessa · Middle East · War
- Geoffrey Plantagenet enters Rouen · Europe · Politics
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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