Why did Richard I want to kill the Jews?

Answer 1

There's no evidence that Richard I wanted to kill the Jews, but his coronation in 1189 as a king and a crusader was used as an excuse for massacring Jews in London and some provincial cities under the guise of religious zeal. Richard I had the pogroms in London stopped, but was far to keen to go off on his crusading adventure to wait till the pogroms in the provinces had been brought to an end.

Richard I was king of England for a little over ten years but spent less than six months in England! He shamelessly used the country as a source of revenue for his military adventures. No wonder the Victorian historian William Stubbs wrote of him: 'He was a bad king'.