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Crusader leader

Count Emicho

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1096

According to the Hebrew chronicles, his crusaders attacked Mainz in 1096, when young and old Jews took up arms under Kalonymus ben Meshullam.

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The Jews did not simply wait for disaster in order to sacrifice themselves: the father who fell on his sword was armed, and the chronicles say that when Mainz was attacked by the Crusaders of Count Emicho, young and old put on armor and took up weapons, led by Rabbi Kalonymus ben Meshullam, the community's chief. But worn down by hardships and fasting, they lacked strength to withstand the enemy.