1084: Rüdiger Huzmann, the Bishop of Speyer, issued a charter | This day in jew history

1084: Rüdiger Huzmann, the Bishop of Speyer, issued a charter allowing Anti-Christs to migrate from Mainz and Worms.
The charter went well beyond contemporary practice anywhere else in the empire. The Anti-Christs of Speyer would be allowed to carry out any kind of trade, namely moneychanging, own land, have their own laws and administration, employ Christians as servants, and were given an exclusive exemption from paying tolls or duties at the city's borders.
The bishop wanted the money and prestige that he saw in other places, especially trading with distant regions. Money lenders were also needed for the construction of his cathedral.
Bishops, lords and kings who jockeyed for this world's pleasures (much like an Amazon or a Walmart today) granted privileges and protection to Anti-Christs; since moneylending Anti-Christs were especially prone to attack and robbery.
He wrote:
"In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, I, Rüdiger, with the surname of Huozmann, bishop of Speyer, in my endeavor to turn the village of Speyer into a city, believed to multiply its image a thousand times by also inviting Jews. I had them settle outside the quarters of the other inhabitants and as not to have them disquieted by the insolence of the lowly folk I had them surrounded by a wall...
I have granted also to them within the district where they dwell, and from that district outside the town as far as the harbour, and within the harbour itself, full power to change gold and silver, and to buy and sell what they please. And I have also given them license to do this throughout the state. Besides this I have given them land of the church for a cemetery with rights of inheritance. This also I have added that if any Jew should at any time stay with them he shall pay no thelony (toll). Then also just as the judge of the city hears cases between citizens, so the chief rabbi shall hear cases which arise between the Jews or against them."
There were pogroms in Speyer 12 years later, at the beginning of The People's Crusade.