“Order” of King Ruprecht [Present-day Germany; Wittelsbach Dynasty]: “We, Rupert, king of the Romans by the grace of God, order the Jews and [Our] chamber-servants of Frankfurt to give 550 gold coins (“Gulden”) to Heinrich Melbecher, the Chancellor to the County Canton of Alzey (‘Landschreiber zu Alzey’). […]”
König Rupercht von der Pfalz in seinen Beziehungen zu den Juden – Ungedruckte Königsurkunden nebst ergänzenden Aktenstücken; Gesammelt und mitgeteilt von Moritz Stern; (Kiel, 1898); p. 3; (“King Ruprecht of the Rhineland-Palatinate in his Relations with the Jews – Unpublished Royal Documents along with supplementary files; collected and shared by Moritz Stern”); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 5/6/2017