https://kyleorton.co.uk/2026/09/24/little-saint-hugh-englands-worst-blood-libel-craze/Kyle Orton's Blogen2026-09-24T23:53:00+00:00Little Saint Hugh: England’s Worst Blood Libel CrazeRussia, Antisemitism, pogroms, Christianity, Germany, conspiracy theories, France, Jews, Christendom, blood libel, Richard I, Jesus, Jerusalem, Richard the Lionheart, England, English Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell, Roman Catholic Church, Serbia, Popish Plot, Papal Revolution, vampires, Middle Ages, Pope Gregory VII, Holy Land, Papal Bull, monks, Menahem Mendel Beilis, armed pilgrimage, Little Saint Hugh, Hugh of Lincoln, William of Norwich, Lincoln Cathedral, ritual murder accusations, Hopkins Witch Panic, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Beilis Case, Thomas of Monmouth, Theobald of Cambridge, Robert of Bury, Beilis Affair, Harold of Gloucester, Winchester, Richard of Devizes, Adam of Bristol, Henry III, Count Theobald V of Blois, Saint Swithun, Walk to Canossa, King John, Hapsburg Austria, legends, Caursines, Cahorsins, anti-Judaism, Medieval Era, Passion of Christ, John of Lexington, Copin, Norman conquest of England, Saint Cecilia, House of Converts, First Crusade, Domus Conversorum, Fulda, Geoffrey Chaucer, Coin-Clipping Scandal of 1279, Statutum de Judaismo, Lachrymabilem judaeorum, Sicut Judaeis, People’s Crusade, Edward I, Franciscans, Statute of the Jewry, Abraham of Kent, Licoricia of Winchester