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The Cabinet June 25, 2026 · Flonheim, Rhineland-Palatinate

The German Crusading Lord Whose Army Murdered Thousands of Rhineland Jews and Was Destroyed in Hungary Before It Ever Reached the Holy Land

Count Emicho of Flonheim led the unofficial 'German Crusade' of 1096 — the substantial armed band that conducted the Mainz, Worms, and Cologne massacres of Rhineland Jews. The army never reached Constantinople. King Coloman of Hungary destroyed it in a series of military engagements in late summer 1096. Emicho himself survived and returned home in disgrace.

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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · Flonheim, Rhineland

The German Crusader Army That Massacred the Rhineland Jews and Was Then Destroyed in Hungary Before Reaching Jerusalem

Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the 1096 German crusading bands that massacred substantial Jewish communities in the Rhineland on the way east. His army was destroyed by King Coloman of Hungary in three engagements that summer. Emicho survived and returned home in disgrace, where he reportedly went mad.

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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · Wieselburg (Moson), Hungary

The German Count Whose Rhineland Crusading Pogroms Got His Army Destroyed by the King of Hungary

Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the unofficial German crusading armies of 1096. He conducted the substantial Mainz and Worms massacres in May and June, then marched east toward the Holy Land. The Hungarian king Coloman destroyed his army at the Wieselburg bridge in late June. Emicho himself returned home in disgrace.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate

The German Synagogue That Was Destroyed Three Times in a Thousand Years and Always Rebuilt

The Worms synagogue was first built in 1034. It was destroyed by Count Emicho's army in 1096, by the Black Death mob in 1349, and by the Nazis on Kristallnacht in 1938. It was rebuilt each time, most recently in 1961. It is the longest continuously rebuilt religious building in central Europe.

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The Footnote June 23, 2026 · Lateran Palace, Rome

The Papal Bull That Protected Medieval Jews and Was Reissued by Every Pope for Three Hundred Years

After the Rhineland massacres of 1096, the papacy issued a formal bull that prohibited the killing or forced conversion of Jews. Every subsequent medieval pope reissued it. The bull was widely violated. It nonetheless established the legal framework on which medieval Jewish communities could appeal.

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The Coroner’s Report June 12, 2026 · Worms, Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany)

The Rhineland Massacres That Came Before the Crusade

In the spring of 1096, before the First Crusade reached Asia, an army of pilgrims spent six weeks killing the Jewish communities of the Rhine.

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