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The history of the Jews in Wales begins in the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, shortly after the English conquest of Wales, Edward I issued the 1290 Edict of Expulsion expelling the Jews from England. Except for one exceptional record, between 1290 and the formal return of the Jews to England in 1655, there is no official trace of Jews on Welsh soil. Major Jewish settlement in Wales dates from the 19th century, although there are also records of Jewish communities in the 18th century. ==Middle Ages== Like the rest of Western Europe, medieval Wales was a Christian country. The clergyman and author Gerald of Wales (c. 1146 – c. 1223) wrote an account of his journey through Wales in 1188 in order to recruit soldiers for the Third Crusade. In his account of that journey, the ''Itinerarium Cambriae'' (1191), he provides an obviously allegorical narrative concerning a Jew and a Christian priest travelling in Shropshire, England, but makes no reference to Jews in Wales.〔Gerald of Wales. ''The Itinerary through Wales and the Description of Wales'', trans. Richard Colt Hoare (Everyman's Library), p. 137.〕 During the thirteenth century there are records of Jews in Abergavenny, Caerleon and Chepstow, all of which were in the Marcher Lordships of south Wales. It is likely that most if not all Jews left Wales after Edward I's act of 1290, although the writ of the English king would not have run in many of the Marcher Lordships. The Welsh chronicle ''Brut y Tywysogion'' refers to the act but only in the context of the Jews in neighbouring England.〔Thomas Jones (ed.), ''Brut y Tywysogion, Peniarth MS. 20'' (Cardiff, 1941), p. 229b.〕 But there is a remarkable record of an unnamed Jew in the commote of Manor Deilo in Carmarthenshire (outside the Marcher Lordships) in 1386/7. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Jews in Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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