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1. Full Date of Act	Aug. 29, 1304
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Capitation Tax at Segovia issued by King Ferdinand
3. Geography of Act	Spain
4. Text of Act	We, Ferdinand, by the grace of God, king of Castile etc., etc. To the Jewry of Segovia, and all other Jewries of the towns and places within the said diocese […]. Know ye, that the bishop and dean have complained to me, and say, that you will not pay nor account with them, nor to their order, the thirty deniers each of you have to give in memorial of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, when the Jews crucified him […]. You are bound to pay the same in gold and I consider it just that you pay the amount in the correct coin. […]
5. Source	Diego de Colmenares, Historia de la insigne Ciudad de Segovia. Accessed online
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1. Full Date of Act	1306
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Exile by King Philip IV “The Fair”
3. Geography of Act	France
4. Text of Act	None
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1. Full Date of Act	Jan. 2, 1306
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Papal bull from Clement V to an unnamed landowner in the Holy Roman Empire
3. Geography of Act	Europe (multi-countries)
4. Text of Act	We are inclined towards your supplication, and we grant you that, since you have unjustly taken goods and amounts of money from the Jews who live on your lands, the same amounts and goods shall be considered as having been restituted, as long as you set them aside for the needs of the poor.
5. Source	Grayzel, Solomon. The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, Volume II (1254-1315). The Jewish Theological Seminary of America: New York, 1989. Page 212.
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8. Notes	Editor Present-day Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, Vatican, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg Researcher This bull is in response to a letter from a noble landowner who asked permission to keep money and property he had unjustly taken from the Jews living on his land. Even though his tenants would have been clearly known to this nobleman, the Holy See grants his request with only the vague condition that the money and property be “set aside” for the needs of the (presumably Christian) poor. Had the extorted been Christians, such a papal response would have been unthinkable, and actual restitution certainly been ordered.

1. Full Date of Act	Jan. 3, 1306
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Papal bull from Clement V to Mary, Queen of France
3. Geography of Act	Present-day France
4. Text of Act	As you have explained to us, your conscience is burdened because you have exacted certain sums from some Jews of your country for the benefit of your own budget. We are inclined towards your petition to keep these exacted sums, provided that you assign a portion of these funds to the support of the Apostolic See.
5. Source	Grayzel, Solomon. The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, Volume II (1254-1315). The Jewish Theological Seminary of America: New York, 1989. Page 213.
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1. Full Date of Act	Jun. 8, 1306
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Diocesan Synod of Verden” held under Bishop Friedrich von Boitzenburg of Verden
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Prince-Bishopric of Verden
4. Text of Act	[…] we have decide that all Jews living/lingering in our capital, villages, towns and communities and such places are to be stopped and asked (bound) to pay a tenth [of their wealth] to our Diocese per year by the assessment of a competent parish priest […]. In case of incompliance, they are immediately to be forced to do so with a threat of ecclesiastical punishment. […].
5. Source	Medieval Ashkenaz: Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im Spätmittlealterlichen Reich; Synoden und Konzilien 1, Nr. 7a (Corpus of the Sources on the History of Jews in the Late Middles Ages; Synods and Councils 1, No. 7a).
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1. Full Date of Act	Aug. 18, 1306
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Decree of Confiscation issued by King Philip IV addressed to the Bailiff
3. Geography of Act	France
4. Text of Act	We command you and each of you to have all lands, houses, vineyards and other possessions, which the Jews of the said bailiwick held as their own at the time of their arrest, sold at public auction for a just price on our behalf. This should be done as quickly as possible 9...]. You should cause all this to be announced throughout the entire bailiwick without delay.
5. Source	Global Jewish Advocacy: Anti-Semitism: An Assault on Human Rights, Accessed online
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1. Full Date of Act	1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Expulsion of Jews” from Rufach/Rouffach
3. Geography of Act	Fiefdom of Rouffach; Present-day France
4. Text of Act	Comment from Additional Sources: 1) “[…] A number of Jews of Rouffach were burnt outside of the city and the rest were expelled […].”
5. Source	Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich, hg.v. Alfred Haverkamp und Jörg R. Müller, Trier, Mainz 2014, EL01, Nr. 72, (“Corpus of the Sources on the History of Jews in the Late Middles Ages; Synods and Councils”)
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 5, 1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Albert I
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Albert I consents to (affirms) Archbishop Peter of Mainz pledging 100 Mark of the annual [tax] revenues of Jews in Frankfurt to the nobleman [Duke] Siegfried (‘Sifrid’) von Eppstein.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. Edited by M[eir] Wiener, PhD. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a summary of the original Latin text which can be found in Boehmer’s Codex Diplimaticus Moenofrancofurtanus (Volume I).

1. Full Date of Act	Apr. 5, 1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Decree by Frederick the Fair, Duke of Austria and Styria, for the town of St. Veit
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Austria
4. Text of Act	[…] the Jews shall take only four pfennings per gold mark in weekly interest, two pfennings per silver mark.
5. Source	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.
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1. Full Date of Act	May 11, 1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Order [of Special Taxation of Jews]” issued by Archbishop Peter of Mainz
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt
4. Text of Act	[…] The annual payment of 100 Marks of Cologne Denars (Coloniesium denariorum) to Our beloved Si[frido] of Eppenstein and his successors is to be accepted by the Jews of Frankfurt. […]
5. Source	UB [Urkundenbuch] Frankfurt 1, Nr. 902, S. 467 f.; Codex Diplomaticus Moenofrancofurtanus, S. 380; (Certificate Book [of] Frankfort 1, No. 902, p. 467 f.; Diplomatic Codex of Moenofrancofurtanus, p. 380);
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1. Full Date of Act	Aug. 11, 1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Papal bull “Exurgat Deus,” from Clement V to the Order of Saint John
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Greece
4. Text of Act	Jews are to be compelled by the secular authorities to remit the interest they have already extorted [from Crusaders], and until they do so, they shall be denied any kind of intercourse with the Christian faithful, under penalty of excommunication [of the Christians], in the marketplace or otherwise.
5. Source	Grayzel, Solomon. The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, Volume II (1254-1315). The Jewish Theological Seminary of America: New York, 1989. Page 214.
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1. Full Date of Act	Sep. 20, 1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Henry VII of Luxemburg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Henry VII of Luxemburg promises […] that in case that he is elected Roman King, he will [grant/give] Archbishop Henry II of Cologne - among other things, the Jews of Dortmund as well as ownership of all escort [fees] from the Jews in the entire diocese.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. Edited by M[eir] Wiener, PhD. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a summary of the original Latin text which can be found in Lacomblet’s Urkundenbuch für die Geschichte des Niederrheins (Book-of-writs regarding the history of the Lower-Rhine; Volume III).

1. Full Date of Act	Nov. 28, 1308
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Order” of Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich VII
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free City of Frankfurt a. Main
4. Text of Act	[…] We, Heinrich [VII] […], elected King of the Romans […] declare all Jews of both sexes […] who are currently living or will live in the future in the cities of Rheinau and Molsheim of the Diocese of Strasbourg and Rufach and Sulz in the Diocese of Basel to be the eternal possessions of the Church of Strasbourg, so that they serve [the Church] and belong to them rightfully […] as a consolation of the great losses [the Church has] suffered in the service of the Kingdom (Reich) and as an incentive for all future assistance of the prelates of the Church of Strasbourg […] with the consent of the [Kur-]princes […].
5. Source	Strasbourg, AD Bas-Rhin, G 1115, Abschriften aus der Straßburger Bischofskanzlei (16. Jh.) von Transsumpten Kg. Friedrichs des Schönen und Kg. Karls IV. vom 24. März 1315 resp. 25. Oktober 1354 (“Strasbourg, Archive Department [of] Bas-Rhin, G 1115, Transcripts from the Bishop’s office in Strasbourg (16th Century) from an Insert [of] King Fredrick the Fair and King Carl IV from March 24, 1315 [to] October 25, 1354”);
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1. Full Date of Act	Jan. 24, 1309
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII addressed to his brother, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	King Henry (‘Heinrich’) instructs his highly-beloved prince and brother, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier to pass on and collect expenses in the amount of 394 Mark Cologne currency, which he accrued for his coronation, from the royal Jews in Boppard. Should they, however, be unable to produce the entire sum [on their own], the royal Jews in Oberwesel are to give the remainder […]
5. Source	Regesta Imperii. Herausgegeben von der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. VI. Die Regenten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Vierte Abteilung: Heinrich VII. 1288/1303-1313. (Wien/Weimar/Köln; 2006); (Regesta of the empire. Published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. VI. The regesta of the empire under Rudolf, Adolf, Albert, Henry VII. 1273-1313. Fourth section. Henry VII. 1288/1303-1313. (Vienna/Weimar/Cologne; 2006);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text.

1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 6, 1309
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Legal Declaration” of Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich VII
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany; Free Imperial Town Speyer/Spire
4. Text of Act	[… We the] King of the Romans declare that we wish to reward Our beloved and faithful Count Theobald, in return for his […] service to Our kingdom, […] by giving him [as a present] the money which he had extorted and collected from the Jews during the short vacancy of Our Throne [regency].
5. Source	Genealogia diplomatica gentis Habsburgicae 2, 2, Nr. 701, S. 591. (National Genealogy of Habsburg 2, 2, No. 701, p. 591);
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1. Full Date of Act	Jun. 8, 1309
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Henry VII of Luxemburg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Henry VII declares that he has come to an agreement with the Archbishop Peter of Mainz in that instead of paying him annually the tithe from the Jews in Germany which he’s entitled to as Arch-Chancellor, he’s instead to be given 600 Pfund Heller […] as long as it pleases [the two of] them.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. Edited by M[eir] Wiener, PhD. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text which can be found in Guden’s Codex Diplomaticus (Volume III).

1. Full Date of Act	Jul. 19, 1309
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Henry VII of Luxemburg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Henry VII permits the nobleman Friedrich von Schleiden, his blood-relative, to admit and keep Jews in his castle Schleiden to improve his imperial-loans/domains.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. Edited by M[eir] Wiener, PhD. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the old original text, which can be found in Lünig’s Teutsche Reichsarchiv (Volume 22). This, in effect, permitted von Schleiden to admit Jews into his domain and to tax them and place special levies on them in order to increase cash-flow in his territory.

1. Full Date of Act	Aug. 1, 1309
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of Henry VII of Luxemburg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Henry VII loans/pledges the local Jews [in Eichstätt] to the Bishop of Eichstätt (‘Eichstädt’), and [orders that] Jews are to serve him and no longer the empire.
5. Source	Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland während des Mittelalters. Bearbeitet von Dr. M. Wiener. Erster Teil. (Regesta regarding the history of Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages. Edited by M[eir] Wiener, PhD. First Part.); (Hannover; 1862);
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text which can be found in Monumenta Boica (Volume V).

1. Full Date of Act	Dec. 3, 1309
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of King Henry
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	King Henry permits Hofmeister Johann [II.] of Braunshorn and Beilstein [along with the permission to build a fortress in the valley under the castle …] to settle/keep ten Jews there as well and to use/take advantage of their services until the king has paid him 200 Mark […]
5. Source	Böhmer, Johann Friedrich: Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, und Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Vierte Abteilung: Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. (Regesta of the Empire under Rudolph, Adolph, Albert, Henry VII 1273-1313. Fourth section: Henry VI. 1288/1308-1313.) Mainz; 2014;
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original text.

1. Full Date of Act	1310
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	"Diocesan Synod of Trier" Issued by Archbishop Balduin
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Commentary from other sources: 1) Vicesimo septimo, scienter coiens cum Iudaea vel Saracena vel Pagana vel e converso. Ista sunt statuta salubria provincialis concilii Trevirensis edita sollempniter per reverendum in Christo patrem et dominum Balduinum Dei gratia Trevirensis ecclesiae archiepiscopum sacri imperii per regnum Aralatense archicancellarium et publicata in ecclesia beati Petri Trevirensis, anno Domini MCCC decimo vicesima octava die mensis aprilis ratificata et approbata concorditer per ipsum provinciale concilium. (2)Bonn, UB, Best. S 731, fol. 40r-55r, hier: fol. 48r, Abschr. (14. Jh.), lat., Papier;Koblenz, LHA, Best. 701, Nr. 101, fol. 40v-42v (Abschr., 15. Jh.); ebd., Nr. 306, fol. 68r-90r (Abschr., 15. Jh.) (in beiden fehlt Kap. 89). • GRAYZEL, Church 2 (1989), S. 274 (dort fälschlicherweise als Kap. 93 verzeichnet); Statuta synodalia Trevirensis 1, S. 63-155, hier: S. 114; Sacrorum conciliorum collectio 25, Sp. 247-294, hier: Sp. 272; Concilia Germaniae 4, Sp. 127-165, hier: Sp. 148; Mittelalterliche Handschriften im Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz (2002) 2, S. 89 und 388 (zu den beiden Koblenzer Handschriften)
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1. Full Date of Act	1310
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Jewish Ghetto”
3. Geography of Act	Free Imperial City of Strasbourg; Present-day France
4. Text of Act	Comment from Additional Sources: 1) “In a leasing document (certificate), the existence of a Jewish ghetto in Strasbourg is mentioned.”
5. Source	Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im spätmittelalterlichen Reich, hg.v. Alfred Haverkamp und Jörg R. Müller, Trier, Mainz 2014, EL01, Nr. 75, (“Corpus of the Sources on the History of Jews in the Late Middles Ages; Synods and Councils”)
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 11, 1310
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Edict, issued by Emperor Henry VII, King of Germany, for the City of Nuremberg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	Any animals slaughtered by the Jews at Nuremberg shall not be sold at the meat counters of Christians, but in separate and distinct butcher shops or stalls. The aforementioned [i.e., Nuremberger] Jews shall not charge more weekly interest than two hellers per pound heller to a regular citizen of Nuremberg, and not more that three hellers per pound heller to an outsider. On Christian fast days, these [Nuremberger] Jews shall not buy any fish before noon.
5. Source	Würfel, A. Historische Nachrichten von der Juden-Gemeinde, welche ehehin in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg angericht gewesen, aber anno 1499 ausgeschaffet worden [Historical News of the Jewish Community that was once established in the Imperial City of Nuremberg but was exiled in the year 1499]. Monath: Nuremberg, 1755. Page 126. .
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1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 17, 1310
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Diocesan Synod of Strasbourg” held under Bishop Johann I
3. Geography of Act	Present-day France; Free Imperial City of Strasbourg
4. Text of Act	We remind and admonish the spiritual dignitaries and alienators of church properties […]: Furthermore, because chalices are sometimes pawned off to Jews, it has been said, that a certain rudeness of the worst kind has been committed by the enemies of (the cross of) Christ to disgrace the Christian belief. Therefore, in order to avoid such detrimental hazards, we command that none of our subordinates shall from now on arrogate themselves to pawn off any inaugurated chalices to Jews* or to agree to pawn them off or allow them to be pawned off under the punishment of excommunication. Furthermore, we want those offenders, as (we have) put forward in this letter, to be automatically subjected to the punishment of excommunication, and we decide that any such deposits are deemed ineffective.
5. Source	Medieval Ashkenaz: Corpus der Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden im Spätmittlealterlichen Reich; Synoden und Konzilien 1, Nr. 8 (“Corpus of the Sources on the History of Jews in the Late Middles Ages; Synods and Councils 1, No. 8”).
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8. Notes	Editor Additional Comment from the source: "In the present copy of the 14th century, the word 'Judeis' is missing, while in the equated provisions of the 1341 and 1345 of the same Handwritten manuscript, it is included."

1. Full Date of Act	Mar. 25, 1310
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	“Writ” of Lord Remund von Lichtenburg
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Czech Republic
4. Text of Act	Redmund von Lichtenburg, Lord of half of the City of Havlickuv Brod* and his nephews Václav, Smil, and [Cenek] permit the citizens of Havlickuv Brod – because they have received 200 Mark from them – to fortify/secure the city; furthermore, they exempt the citizens of all taxes and liens as well as all tolls in Habern for 10 years; however, during this time, they are to [only] submit the annual taxes from the Jews.
5. Source	Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels- und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.) (Prague; 1906)
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text. *Until 1945, the city was known as [Nemecky] Brod which is the name used in the original text.

1. Full Date of Act	May 1, 1310
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)	Writ of King Henry
3. Geography of Act	Present-day Germany
4. Text of Act	King Henry [Heinrich] orders that because he has sent his prince, Bishop Philipp [von Rathsamhausen] from Eichstätt to Italy for certain matters regarding the king and the empire (’imperii negociis’) and that he wishes to be rather useful to the church of Eichstätt than harmful […] and that Philipp’s debt with all Jews in the empire (‘in imperio constitutis’) starting with the last Easer-fest (April 19, 1310) until his return to Eichstätt should not accrue any interests or fees, and frees the Bishop and his church and his citizens [of such increases] with royal authority as per the writ.
5. Source	Böhmer, Johann Friedrich: Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Rudolf, Adolf, Albrecht, und Heinrich VII. 1273-1313. Vierte Abteilung: Heinrich VII. 1288/1308-1313. (Regesta of the Empire under Rudolph, Adolph, Albert, Henry VII 1273-1313. Fourth section: Henry VI. 1288/1308-1313.); (Mainz; 2014)
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8. Notes	Researcher The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text.