Expulsion of the Jews from France (1306) — Philip IV
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In one coordinated raid in 1306, a broke French king arrested his Jewish subjects and cancelled everyone's debts to them by pocketing the money himself.
Who they are
This is King Philip IV of France's 1306 mass arrest and expulsion of the Jewish population.
What they do
The engine files it as a state-scale scapegoating done for money, where a group is punished to solve the ruler's problems.
How it works
On 22 July 1306 the Crown ran a coordinated mass arrest; debts owed to Jewish lenders were switched to become owed to the Crown, and their real estate was auctioned into the royal treasury.
Why it matters
The documented fact is the fiscal mechanism (debt shifted to the king); the engine deliberately leaves open whether money or religion was the primary motive, and keeps the deeper cause held rather than declared, treating it as a sibling to the 1290 English expulsion.
The engine's record — word for word
[in-scope 1200-2040; new instance] Philip IV; coordinated mass arrest 22 Jul 1306; debts owed to Jewish lenders reverted to the Crown, real estate auctioned to the treasury. Structural class: exemption-against (#100) / state-scale pharmakos. DOCUMENTED FACT: author-of-record = the French Crown; target = the Jewish population; the records document a fiscal mechanism (debt-reversion to the treasury). Readings HELD, not asserted: whether fiscal motive or religious announcement was primary (#88) is held open; apex held in superposition. Sibling: edict_expulsion_1290. Tier-2 (Univ. of Toronto fiscal study; Encyclopaedia Judaica).
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