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Hugh of Lincoln (1246 – 27 August 1255) was an English boy whose death in Lincoln was falsely attributed to Jews. He is sometimes known as Little Saint Hugh or Little Sir Hugh to distinguish him from the adult saint, Hugh of Lincoln (died 1200). The boy Hugh was not formally canonised, so "Little Saint Hugh" is a misnomer. [a]
Hugh insisted on a second, private election by the canons, securely in their chapterhouse at Lincoln rather than in the king's chapel - the result confirmed his election. Lincoln was the largest diocese in England, encompassing some 9 counties. Hugh was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln on 21 September 1186 [21] at Westminster. [5]
In August 1255, a number of the chief Jews who had assembled at Lincoln to celebrate the marriage of a daughter of Berechiah de Nicole were seized on a charge of having murdered a boy named Hugh. Henry intervened to order the execution of Copin, who had confessed to the murder in return for his life, and removed 91 Jews to the Tower of London ...
The house has traditionally been associated with the thriving Jewish community in Medieval Lincoln. Antisemitic hysteria was stoked by a notorious 1255 blood libel alleging that the mysterious death of a Christian child, known as Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln , was the result of him allegedly being kidnapped and ritually killed by Jews.
Ballads and poems respecting Hugh of Lincoln, a boy alleged to have been murdered by the Jews in the year MCCLC. Brixton Hill. Hume, Abraham (1849). Sir Hugh of Lincoln, Or, An Examination of a Curious Tradition Respecting the Jews: With a Notice of the Popular Poetry Connected with it. John Russell Smith. Jacobs, Joseph (1904). "Hugh of Lincoln".
Hugh Dancy’s great-grandmother is the subject of a new true crime podcast from Wondery. “Ghost Story” unravels the tale of Dr. Naomi Dancy, who was found dead in 1937 after being shot twice ...
A Lincoln man was arrested Tuesday on first-degree murder charges after he allegedly killed a man during a brawl. Tyler W. Richardson, 31, was arrested at 1:46 p.m. after an investigation into the ...
Yet such sacramental materialism remains vulnerable to the kinds of abuse more obviously associated with the Pardoner; Fradenburg cites the case of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, the historical episode of the young English Christian supposedly martyred by Jews, "slayn also / With cursed Jewes, as it is notable / For it is but a litel while ago ...