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Licoricia of Winchester
Died
1277
Winchester, England
Spouses
Abraham of Kent
David of Oxford
(m. 1242; died 1244)
Children
Benedict
Cockerel
Lumbard
Belia
Asher
A statue of Licoricia was unveiled in 2022. The statue is on Jewry Street in Winchester.
Licoricia of Winchester (early 13th century – 1277)[1] was an English Jewish businesswoman, who like all English Jews of the period had to navigate the perilous waters of only being able to stay if they were financially useful to the Crown. She has been described by historian Robert Stacey as "the most important Jewish woman in medieval England".[2]
She lent money at scale as did a small minority of English Jews, who were prevented from working in many fields due to religious discrimination. They could not join trade guilds for example. This financial activity made them financially useful to the king who increasingly took what he wanted from their dwindling resources. She was also a wife and mother, who despite the increasingly difficult circumstances of the Jews in thirteenth-century England, which involved regular, punitive taxation, arbitrary imprisonments, and increasing religious intolerance (Fourth Council of the Lateran, blood libel), advanced through marriages and business acumen.[2] She appears to have had a close relationship with King Henry III.[2]
^Marcus, Sara G.; Blum, Yehuda (1 March 2020). "Unsung Women | Licoricia of Winchester: The Jewish businesswoman who funded the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey". The Forward. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
^ abcBartlet, Suzanne; Skinner, Patricia (2009). Licoricia of Winchester: marriage, motherhood and murder in the medieval Anglo-Jewish community. London: Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 978-0-85303-822-1. OCLC 403451677.
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