" At Cologne, Simon "the Pious" was murdered and mutilated; at Speyer a woman was tortured on the rack to persuade her to convert to Christianity. Secular prelates tried to protect the Jews.
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Radulphe was a French monk who, without permission from his superiors, left his monastery in France and travelled to the Rhine Valley during the Second Crusade (1145-1149) where he preached "that the Jews should be slain as the enemies of the Christian religion." At Cologne, Simon "the Pious" was murdered and mutilated; at Speyer a woman was tortured on the rack to persuade her to convert to Christianity. Secular prelates tried to protect the Jews. Arnold, the Archbishop of Cologne gave them a fortified castle as refuge, and allowed them to arm themselves; the Crusaders refrained from attacking the castle, but killed any unconverted Jew that fell into their clutches. Henry I, Archbishop of Mainz admitted into his house some Jews pursued by a mob; the mob forced its way in, and killed them before his eyes.
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