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Aaron of Lincoln was an English Jewish financier. He is believed to have been the wealthiest man in Norman England; it is estimated that his wealth exceeded that of the King.
Norman House, Lincoln: frontage on Steep Hill
The first-recorded Jews in England arrived after the Norman Conquest of the country by William the Conqueror in 1066, and the first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070. Afte
Aaron of Lincoln
…1190, Richard de Malbis (Richard Malebisse), a debtor of Aaron of Lincoln, led an attack on the family of Aaron's late agent in York that resulted in a massacre of the entire Jewish community, some 150 men, women, and children, including Yom Tov of Joigny, at York Castle. A house sometimes associated with Aaron of Lincoln still stands, also…
One of two surviving Jewish houses, the Jew's House in Lincoln, immediately below Jew's Court
Clifford's Tower, where the Jews of York were killed in 1190
Edward I was the first English monarch to use antisemitism as an instrument of state policy.
Extract of the Statute of Jewry, c. 1275