[2] According to Chris Harman (2000), during different parts of the XIV century several attacks on jews merchants and christian priests took place, and also awhich, typically, masses of people would march from town to town, looting and being joined by others during their march.

Harman quotes the following: "Armed columns appeared, consisting of miserably poor artisans and labourers with an admixture of nobles who had squandered their wealth.

These people begged and pillaged their way through the country, killing Jews but also storming…castles…In the end they attacked the castle of the Duke of Brabant…who three years before had routed an army of insurgent clothworkers and, it is said, buried its leaders alive."

(London, 1970), p.102.John, who suffered from kidney stones and wanted his duchy to be peacefully handed over to his son upon his death, in 1312 signed the famous Charter of Kortenberg.

On 8 July 1290, John married Margaret of England in Westminster Abbey, London.