Home›Sources›Konieczny, Peter, "The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade," Medievalists.net (2023)SourcesKonieczny, Peter, "The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade," Medievalists.net (2023)Konieczny, 2023Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Konieczny, Peter, "The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade," Medievalists.net (2023)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/konieczny-rhineland-massacres-medievalists-2023.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Konieczny, Peter, "The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade," Medievalists.net (2023). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/konieczny-rhineland-massacres-medievalists-2023Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-konieczny-peter-the-rhineland-massacres, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Konieczny, Peter, "The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade," Medievalists.net (2023)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/konieczny-rhineland-massacres-medievalists-2023}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA general-audience medieval-history web article surveying the 1096 Rhineland massacres city by city (Speyer, Worms, Mainz), citing Robert Chazan as the field's leading historian and stating a widely circulated modern estimate of more than 10,000 Jews killed that year by the crusaders.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested3 1A general-audience web publication summarizing academic crusades scholarship rather than a peer-reviewed source in its own right; carried at a lower tier than the peer-reviewed and primary-chronicle sources already cited for the First Crusade's death-toll facts, appropriate to an unattributed modern total rather than a sourced calculation.NotesWell-attestedA reputable public-history website, not a peer-reviewed academic publication itself; its higher total is not tied to a named calculation or a specific historian's own figure within the article, and is carried here as the documented modern upper end of what is claimed rather than as an independently corroborated count, contrasted with the considerably lower, chronicle-derived total this entity also cites. 1CitationAuthorWell-attestedPeter Konieczny 1PublisherWell-attestedMedievalists.net 1Publication YearWell-attested2023 1URLWell-attestedhttps://www.medievalists.net/2023/02/rhineland-massacres-first-crusade/ 1Source TypeWell-attestedPopular work 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Konieczny, Peter, "The Rhineland Massacres of the First Crusade," Medievalists.net (2023)tier 3Peter Konieczny, Medievalists.net, 2023View the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (3 claims)This source backs 3 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicReligious Events, 3 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 2 general references.Scholarly debate1Religious EventsThe Rhineland Massacres of 1096General References2Religious EventsThe First CrusadeThe Rhineland Massacres of 1096Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year