JUNE 15

1215:  King John of England puts his seal to the
Magna Carta.  The Great Charter which is
supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights contains
the following reference to the Jews: “If anyone who borrowed fro…

JUNE 14

1287: 
Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist
Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.  It is quite possible that there were Jewish
soldiers serving under the great Mongol warrior who became Emperor …

JUNE 13

823:
Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with
anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon.  In doing so, Charles was following in the
footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had also re…

JUNE 12

816:
Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of
the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.

1240:
Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced Pope
Gregory IX …

JUNE 7

421:
Theodosius II, the Emperor whose code sought to reinforce Christianity as the
state religion at the expense of Judaism, married Aelia Eudocia Augusta, a
pagan who converted so that they could be married by the Church.

1099:  During t…