The Men Helping the Jews, Part 3

That title is not meant to justify or praise the men of whom I'm speaking. At the time it was thought by Christians that the best approach to dealing with the "problem" of Jews was to kill them or force them to be Christian.Yesterday I discussed Walter Mauclerc, bishop of Carlisle and first warden of the Domus Conversorum. Today is about Peter des Roches, a soldier and diplomat from Poitou who served King John and then Henry III. He spent time on the Sixth Crusade (1228 - 1229).In 1205 he was named bishop of Winchester by John, though he seemed unsuitable. Pope Innocent III confirmed him for John's sake. Peter stayed loyal to John when Innocent placed England under interdict because John did not want to accept Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.Peter's loyalty prompted John to name him Chief Justiciar (equivalent to prime minister), but by 1215 he was replaced with Hubert de Burgh, one of the other witnesses to the charter establishing the Domus Conversorum. des Roches also…

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