Vivelin of Strasbourg

Vivelin of Strasbourg was an Alsatian Jewish financier, considered as one of the richest people in the Holy Roman Empire at that time.

Vivelin ran her business in Strasbourg dealing mainly with the important men like the Archbishop of Trier, Baldwin of Luxembourg, and Edward III, the king of England and one of the most powerful rulers in Europe. She led a consortium that raised an enormous sum of 340,000 florins that was given as loan to King Edward III in anticipation of the war in France, in history known as Hundred Years War.

Her name is not mentioned in the records after 1347, and is considered that she is executed during the during the Strasbourg pogrom of 1349, one of the worst pogroms in pre-modern history motivated by the belief that the Jews were guilty for the plague.