=Blanche de Bourbon=, wife of Pedro the Cruel, =4=, 116-17. party of, =4=, 117. meditates the banishment of the Spanish Jews, =4=, 117. murder of, resolved on, =4=, 121-2. death of, attributed to the Jews, =4=, 122. illegality of the marriage of, =4=, 122. =Blandrata=, disciple of Servetus, =4=, 647. =Bloch, Mattathias=, emissary of Sabbataï Zevi, =5=, 133, 137. =Blois=, the Jews of, charged with the blood accusation, =3=, 378-81. fast prescribed for, =3=, 380-1. =Blood accusation=, the, first preferred in Blois in 1171, =3=, 378-81. under Philip Augustus, =3=, 402. in Germany in the twelfth century, =3=, 418. preferred by Innocent III, =3=, 499. against the Baden Jews, =3=, 564. in Germany and France in the thirteenth century, =3=, 583-5. disproved by Innocent IV, =3=, 584-5, 635. in England under Henry III, =3=, 591. believed by Alfonso X, =3=, 596. under Rudolph of Habsburg, =3=, 635-7. at Mayence, =3=, 636. at Munich, =3=, 636-7. in England, =3=, 643. against the Jews of Austria, =4=, 223-4. in South Germany, =4=, 227. against the Jews of Palma, =4=, 246-7. against the Jews of Silesia, =4=, 261-2. forbidden by Casimir IV of Poland, =4=, 264. against the Jews of Trent, =4=, 298-9, 304, 307. in Ratisbon, =4=, 301-2, 304-5. not believed by Emperor Frederick III, =4=, 305. the Jews of Castile charged with, =4=, 343-4. the Jews of Neuburg charged with, =4=, 545. injustice of, shown by a Lutheran pastor, =4=, 545-6. preferred by Dr. John Eck, =4=, 546-7. preferred by Luther, =4=, 550. denounced by Stephen Bathori, =4=, 642. preferred by William Prynne, =5=, 45. Manasseh ben Israel defends the Jews from, =5=, 47-9. the Jews of Metz charged with, =5=, 174-5. Richard Simon disproves, =5=, 175-6. Moses Germanus disproves, =5=, 177. denounced by John Wülfer, =5=, 185. denounced by Wagenseil, =5=, 187. endorsed by Eisenmenger, =5=, 187, 188. preferred by the Frankists, =5=, 279. Jews acquitted of, by Benedict XIV, =5=, 282. Jews acquitted of, by Clement XIII, =5=, 285. Believed by the papal nuncio Serra, =5=, 286. not refuted at Lemberg, =5=, 287. threatened to be brought in Damascus, =5=, 633. the Damascus Jews charged with, =5=, 636. alleged to be proved from the Talmud, =5=, 639. brought against the Jews of Rhodes, =5=, 640-1. a Jülich Jew charged with, =5=, 642. groundlessness of, asserted by apostates, =5=, 650. groundlessness of, asserted by the London rabbis, =5=, 654-5. refuted by Mehmet Ali, =5=, 661. firman securing the Turkish Jews against, =5=, 662. refuted by Zunz, =5=, 669. _See also_ Child-murder; Host-desecration. =Boabdil.= _See_ Muley Abu-Abdallah. =Bodenlaube=, castle, Süsskind of Trimberg at, =3=, 420.