Apr. 5, 1308

Decree by Frederick the Fair, Duke of Austria and Styria, for the town of St. Veit [Present-day Austria]: “[…] the Jews shall take only four pfennings per gold mark in weekly interest, two pfennings per silver mark.”
Brugger, Eveline & Wiedl, Birgit. Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis 1338 (Regests on the History of the Jews in Austria during the Middle Ages. Volume 1: From the Beginnings to 1338). Studienverlag: Innsbruck, Austria, 2005. Page 162. Researched by Dominik Jacobs 9/15/2019