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Vivelin of Strasbourg

Vivelin of Strasbourg[note 1] (d. after 1347) was an Alsatian Jewish financier in the 14th century, presumably one of the richest persons within the Holy Roman Empire in that time.[1] He lived in Strasbourg and primarily dealt with the Archbishop of Trier, Baldwin of Luxembourg, but also with the King of England, Edward III, as he led a consortium that lent 140,000 florins to Edward III on the eve of the Hundred Years' War, in 1339.[2]

He is not found in documents after 1347, and might have died during the Strasbourg pogrom of 1349, which saw almost 2,000 people being burned alive at the stake.[3]

Mentgen, Gerd (1996). . In Burgard, Friedhelm (ed.). Hochfinanz im Westen des Reiches, 1150–1500 (in German). Trier: Trierer Historische Forschungen. pp. 75–100. ISBN 3-923087-30-6.

"Herausragende jüdische Finanziers im mittelalterlichen Straßburg"