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When at the same time the Jews in the [[Hohenlohe]] town of [[Röttingen]] were accused of having obtained and [[host desecration|desecrated a consecrated host]], one "Lord Rindtfleisch", whom the sources refer to either as an impoverished knight or—more probably—a butcher (the term ''[[:wikt:Rindfleisch|Rindfleisch]]'' means "beef" in modern [[German language|German]] spelling), gathered a mob around him and [[burned at the stake|burned]] the Röttingen Jews on Sunday, April 20. Rintfleisch declared to have received a mandate from [[heaven]] to avenge the sacrilege and exterminate the Jews. The [[Colmar]] Dominican Rudolph refers to him in Latin as a ''[[:wikt:carnifex|carnifex]]'',<ref>Les annales et la chronique des Dominicains de Colmar: p178 Charles Gérard, Joseph Liblin - 1854 "Veniens in Franckoniam carnifex Rindtfleisch , id est caro bovis , « nomine, qui Judeos cepit et interfecit et eorum res diripuit violenter, « nec erat impedire. » Ante Assumptionem beate Virginis venit in Argentina Albertus rex ..."</ref> i.e. butcher or executioner, but it is not clear if Rudolph meant his original profession, or his behaviour as a slaughterer of the Jews.<ref>''Christ among the medieval Dominicans'' Kent Emery, Joseph Peter Wawrykow - 1998 "Rintfleisch, the popular leader of the massacres, is designated by Rudolph as " the butcher" [camifex). It is not clear whether Rintfleisch was a real name, an occupational tag, or a punning name based on his reputation."</ref> According to contemporary sources the Lord of Röttingen, Kraft von Hohenlohe, was encumbered with debts to Jewish lenders.
After this, he and his mob went from town to town and killed all Jews that fell under their control, destroying the Jewish communities at [[Rothenburg ob der Tauber]], [[Würzburg]], [[Bamberg]], [[Dinkelsbühl]], [[Nördlingen]] and [[Forchheim]]. In the [[Free Imperial City of Nuremberg]], the Jews sought refuge in the [[Nuremberg Castle|fortress]] and were assisted by the Christian citizens, but Rintfleisch overcame the defenders and butchered the Jews on 1 August. The ''Nürnberger [[Memorbuch]]'' contains the names of thousands of murdered Jews in numerous cities, among them [[Mordechai ben Hillel]], a pupil of [[
The ''[[Austrian Chronicle of 95 Seigneurs]]'' about 100 years later alleged that King Albert I finally had Rintfleisch arrested and hanged. The cities in which Jews had been killed were required to pay fines to the king.
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