Twelfth Century
- 1107
- Moroccan Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin ordered all Moroccan Jews to convert or leave.
- 1143
- 150 Jews were killed in Ham, France.
- 1144 March 20 (Passover)
- The case of William of Norwich, a contrived accusation of murder by Jews in Norwich, England.
- 1148–1212
- The rule of the Almohads in al-Andalus. Only Jews who had converted to Christianity or Islam were allowed to live in Granada. One of the refugees was Maimonides who settled in Fez and later in Fustat near Cairo.
- 1165
- Forced mass conversions in Yemen
- 1171
- In Blois, France 31 Jews were burned at the stake for blood libel.
- 1179
- The Third Lateran Council, Canon 26: Jews are forbidden to be plaintiffs or witnesses against Christians in the Courts. Jews are forbidden to withhold inheritance from descendants who had accepted Christianity.
- 1180
- Philip Augustus of France after four months in power, imprisons all the Jews in his lands and demands a ransom for their release.
- 1181
- Philip Augustus annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris.
- 1189
- Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa orders priests not to preach against Jews.
- 1189
- A Jewish deputation attending coronation of Richard the Lionheart was attacked by the crowd. Pogroms in London followed and spread around England.
- 1190 February 6
- All the Jews of Norwich, England found in their houses were slaughtered, except a few who found refuge in the castle.
- 1190 March 16
- 500 Jews of York were massacred after a six day siege by departing Crusaders, backed by a number of people indebted to Jewish money-lenders.
- 1190
- Saladdin takes over Jerusalem from Crusaders and lifts the ban for Jews to live there.
- 1198
- Philip Augustus readmits Jews to Paris, only after another ransom was paid and a taxation scheme was set up to procure funds for himself. August: Saladdin's nephew al-Malik, caliph of Yemen, summons all the Jews and forcibly converts them.
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