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Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
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Emicho
11th-century German nobleman
Emicho was a count in the Rhineland in the late 11th century. He is also commonly referred to as Emicho of Leiningen or Emich of Flonheim, and not to be confused with Bishop Emicho of Leiningen. In 1096, he was the leader of the Rhineland massacres which were a series of mass…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mainz
Capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Mainz is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region—Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr—which also…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Rhineland massacres
Pogroms of 1096
The Rhineland massacres, also known as the German Crusade of 1096 or Gzerot Tatnó, were a series of mass murders of Jews perpetrated by mobs of French and German Christians of the People's Crusade in the year 1096.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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