Berechiah de Nicole
1225 CE–1270 CE · Rishonim · Lincoln
Berechiah de Nicole (c. 1225 – after 1270), known in English records as Benedict fil Mosse, was a Tosafist and rabbi of Lincoln — 'Nicole' in the Norman-French of medieval England — and a son of Moses ben Yom-Tov of London. A scholar bearing the honorific 'Magister,' he was caught up in 1255 in the notorious blood libel of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln: arrested and tried, he was released in January 1256 and his property restored. He remains one of the few named Torah scholars of medieval Anglo-Jewry before the expulsion of 1290.
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LincolnלינקולןEast Midlands England — medieval Jewish center
What they did here
Lived in Lincoln — 'Nicole' — where he served as a rabbi and Tosafist and, by tradition, occupied the surviving stone 'Jew's House.' In 1255 he was imprisoned amid the Little Saint Hugh blood libel and released the following January with his property restored.
About Lincoln
Lincoln hosted one of medieval England's largest Jewish communities; the surviving 12th-century 'Jew's House' is among Britain's oldest extant townhouses. The 1255 blood-libel of 'Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln' was a paradigmatic medieval anti-Jewish accusation, leading to 19 Jewish executions. R. Yosef of Lincoln (Yom Tov of Joigny's circle) was a Tosafist.
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- Meir HaLevi Abulafia (Yad Ramah)· 1170 CE–1244 CE
- Yitzchak ben Moshe of Vienna· 1180 CE–1250 CE
- Aaron of York· 1185 CE–1253 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
- Shimon HaDarshan of Frankfurt (attrib.)· 1200 CE–1280 CE
- Moses ben Hasdai Taku· 1200 CE–1280 CE
- Rabbeinu Yonah Gerondi· 1200 CE–1264 CE
- Moshe of Coucy (Sefer Mitzvot Gadol)· 1200 CE–1260 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
- 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
- Shlomo ibn Aderet (Rashba)· 1235 CE–1310 CE
- Abraham Abulafia· 1240 CE–1291 CE
- Anonymous (Sefer HaZohar)· 1240 CE–1305 CE
- R. Moshe ben Shem Tov de León· 1240 CE–1305 CE
- Joseph Gikatilla· 1248 CE–1305 CE
- Menachem HaMeiri· 1249 CE–1315 CE
- Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen (The Mordechai)· 1250 CE–1298 CE
- Menachem Recanati· 1250 CE–1310 CE
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- Tran Thai Tong· 1218 CE–1277 CE
- Baybars· 1223 CE–1277 CE
- Ghiyas ud-Din Balban· –1287 CE
- Michael VIII Palaiologos· 1223 CE–1282 CE
- Louis IX of France· 1214 CE–1270 CE
- Alexander Nevsky· 1221 CE–1263 CE
- Hulagu Khan· 1217 CE–1265 CE
- Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan)· 1215 CE–1294 CE
- Qalawun· 1222 CE–1290 CE
- Al-Muazzam Turanshah· 1225 CE–1250 CE
- Al-Ashraf Khalil· –1293 CE
- Möngke Khan· 1209 CE–1259 CE
- Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji· –1296 CE
- Ramkhamhaeng the Great· –1298 CE
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