This Year: 1306--Robert the Bruce and the French Jewish Expulsion

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1306

This year, in 1306,

Robert the Bruce

murdered his rival John Comyn in a church, 

and became King of the Scots.



Facing a financial crisis,

Philip IV (The Fair) of France 

expelled the Jewish people from France and confiscated their property.

This has been This Year: 1306.

Credits:

"The Banishment of the Jews", by Roque Gameiro, in Quadros da História de Portugal ("Pictures of the History of Portugal", 1917).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Expuls%C3%A3o_dos_Judeus_(Roque_Gameiro,_Quadros_da_Hist%C3%B3ria_de_Portugal,_1917).png

Death of Comyn. Illustration from Cassell’s Illustrated History of England, vol. 1, p. 330
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_of_Comyn.jpg

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, crowns Robert the Bruce at Scone in 1306; from a modern tableau at Edinburgh Castle.
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL241/9001741/16580333/255158027.jpg

Notre Dame Cathedral interior

https://mywowo.net/en/france/paris/notre-dame/interior

Painting of Philip IV, the Fair
http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/File:Philippe_IV_Le_Bel.jpg

Painting of Robert the Bruce
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoberttheBruce.jpg

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant  "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.