Aaron of York
1185 CE–1253 CE · Rishonim · York
Aaron of York (born before 1190 – died after 1253) was the wealthiest English Jew of his day and the Presbyter Judaeorum — the official head of the Jews of England — from 1237. Probably the son of Josce of York, he amassed an enormous fortune as a financier to the Crown, only to be ruined by the relentless tallages of King Henry III, who extracted from him, by one account, some 30,000 marks of silver and 200 of gold. His fall mirrored the deepening royal exploitation that would culminate in the expulsion of England's Jews in 1290.
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YorkיורקYorkshire, England — medieval Jewish center
What they did here
Born in York into a leading family — probably the son of Josce of York — he became the realm's foremost Jewish financier and, in 1237, Presbyter Judaeorum, the senior representative of English Jewry. Repeated royal tallages and confiscations stripped away his vast fortune before his death.
About York
York, a city in Yorkshire in northern England, had a Jewish community in the twelfth century that met a tragic end in March 1190, when, amid anti-Jewish riots, much of the community took refuge in the royal castle keep (Clifford's Tower) and, besieged by a mob, many chose to die rather than be killed or forcibly baptized -- among the worst massacres of medieval Anglo-Jewry.
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- Samuel ibn Tibbon· 1150 CE–1230 CE
- Yehuda HeChasid· 1150 CE–1217 CE
- Azriel of Gerona· 1160 CE–1238 CE
- R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor (Isaac the Blind)· 1160 CE–1235 CE
- R. David Kimchi (Radak)· 1160 CE–1235 CE
- Meir HaLevi Abulafia (Yad Ramah)· 1170 CE–1244 CE
- R. Eleazar ben Yehuda of Worms· 1176 CE–1238 CE
- Yitzchak ben Moshe of Vienna· 1180 CE–1250 CE
- Avraham ben HaRambam (HaMaspik)· 1186 CE–1237 CE
- Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris· 1190 CE–1265 CE
- Moses ben Nachman (Ramban)· 1194 CE–1270 CE
- Moshe of Coucy (Sefer Mitzvot Gadol)· 1200 CE–1260 CE
- Rabbeinu Yonah Gerondi· 1200 CE–1264 CE
- Shimon HaDarshan of Frankfurt (attrib.)· 1200 CE–1280 CE
- Moses ben Hasdai Taku· 1200 CE–1280 CE
- R. Tzidkiyah ben Avraham HaRofeh (the Anav)· 1210 CE–1280 CE
- Meir of Rothenburg (Maharam)· 1215 CE–1293 CE
- R. Chizkiyah ben Manoach (Chizkuni)· 1220 CE–1280 CE
- Berechiah de Nicole· 1225 CE–1270 CE
- Yitzchak of Corbeil (Sefer Mitzvot Katan)· 1230 CE–1280 CE
- Aharon HaLevi (Ra'ah)· 1235 CE–1290 CE
- Peretz ben Elijah of Corbeil· 1235 CE–1295 CE
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- Sundiata Keita· –1255 CE
- al-Mustansir· 1192 CE–1242 CE
- Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor)· 1194 CE–1250 CE
- Aybak· –1257 CE
- Dunama II Dibalemi (Mai Dunama Dabbalemi)· –1259 CE
- Ögedei Khan· 1186 CE–1241 CE
- Qutuz· –1260 CE
- Ala ad-Din Kayqubad I· 1188 CE–1237 CE
- Razia Sultana· –1240 CE
- Möngke Khan· 1209 CE–1259 CE
- Iltutmish· –1236 CE
- Hulagu Khan· 1217 CE–1265 CE
- Louis IX of France· 1214 CE–1270 CE
- Alexander Nevsky· 1221 CE–1263 CE
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