At the Stamford fair in 1190, crusaders and local debtors attacked the Jewish community. The violence was part of the broader wave accompanying Richard I's crusade preparations. Jewish families fled to the castle for protection. The attacks destroyed economic relationships that took decades to rebuild and marked a deterioration in Jewish-English relations that would eventually lead to the expulsion of 1290.
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