1265

This is the year in which the rising influence of Italian bankers begins to make the financial services of the English Jews superfluous.

The fact that the Enlish Crown now turned away from the English Jews and sought financial aid from the Italian bankers paved the way for the waning influence and importance of the Jews in English society. The Jews, in effect, were of less use to the Crown, so that Crown had less interest in maintaining and protecting Jewish rights.

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