Oh yeah that was the move at the time: tax and borrow from the Jews. The Jews are not citizens, they are the personal possession of the king not unlike swans an

Oh yeah that was the move at the time: tax and borrow from the Jews. The Jews are not citizens, they are the personal possession of the king not unlike swans and I think deer. Then yeah just kick em out when it's time to pay them back. I have to imagine something similar happened with other moneyed foreigners at some time like your Lombards.