Arnold III von Uissigheim, also ''blessed Arnold'' und "König Armleder", (c.1298-1336) was a medieval German highwayman, bandit, and renegade knight of the
Uissigheim family, of the village
Uissigheim of the same name. He was the leader of the
"Armleder" massacres against Jewish communities throughout the Alsace in 1336.
Arnold became a wanted man in 1332 on the charge of highway robbery in the Wertheim ''territorium''. He then commenced a wave of populist banditry and massacres against the Jewish population of the
Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...
. Arnold and 47 of his band were taken captive in 1336, and Arnold tried and sentenced to death by the ''
Zentgericht The ''Landgericht'' (plural: ''Landgerichte''), also called the ''Landtag'' in Switzerland, was a regional magistracy or court in the Holy Roman Empire that was responsible for high justice within a territory, such as a county (''Grafschaft''), on b ...
'' (regional court) and executed on 14 November 1336.
[''Herzogs-und Bürgerstadt: die Jahre 1157-1505'' Richard Bauer, Helmuth Stahleder - 1995 "Die Bewegung endete mit der Gefangennahme von Arnold und 47 seiner Gesellen und der Hinrichtung des Arnold von Uissigheim, der sich selbst »König Armleder« nannte. Diese Hinrichtung erfolgte am 14. November 1336 durch das Zentgericht "]
See also
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Rintfleisch massacres
The Rintfleisch or Rindfleisch movement was a series of massacres against Jews in 1298. The event, in later terminology a pogrom, was the first large-scale persecution in Germany since the First Crusade.
History
It occurred in the Franconian regio ...
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Black Death persecutions
There were a series of violent attacks, massacres and mass persecutions of Jews during the Black Death. Jewish communities were falsely blamed for outbreaks of the Black Death in Europe. Violence were committed from 1348 to 1351 in Toulon, Barcelo ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arnold Von Uissigheim
1336 deaths
Year of birth unknown
External links
Armleder Persecutionsin the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)