Louis IX Orders Jews to Wear Yellow Badges in Public
The badge came first. The fine came second. King Louis IX — Saint Louis, the man the Church would later canonize — signed the order in 1269 requiring every Jew in France to wear a yellow badge or pay ten livres of silver. Not a suggestion. A humiliation with a price tag. The idea had roots in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, but Louis made it teeth. And the man history remembers as a model Christian king built that reputation partly on policies like this one.
June 19, 1269
757 years ago
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