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JewishEncyclopedia.com - AUBRIOT, HUGUES: (279 words) |
 | Aubriot earnestly pleaded the cause of the Jews before the king, and through his influence succeeded in obtaining a royal decree, ordering the restoration of the children to their mothers and the restitution of all property taken from the Jews. |
| For thus championing the cause of the Jews, Aubriot incurred the hostility of the Church, which denounced him as being secretly a Jew, and accused him of various crimes, including that of immorality with Jewesses (J. des Ursins, l.c. |
| Aubriot was finally compelled to do penance and was condemned to perpetual imprisonment on bread and water. |
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