Saint Lorau’s Day Riot

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The Saint Lorau’s Day Riot took place in Hlucy in 591. The riot began when a group of students  traveled to the Geldöm House tavern at the center of town. The students quarreled with the tavern keeper over the quality of the food they were given, and the argument escalated to physical fighting. Many of the tavern’s patrons joined on both sides of the fight, townsmen rushing to defend the tavernkeeper, students to their peers. 
The melee quickly turned into a riot, the bar brawl spreading from the tavern across the city, where students and professors were attacked by the townsfolk, who themselves were gaining reinforcements from armed gangs coming from the countryside. The violence continued for five days, with university halls and student accommodations being raided and the inhabitants lynched; there are records of a number of clerics being scalped. Nearly 50 townsmen were killed, while over 105 university members were slain, nearly 1/3 of their population.
Following the restoration of Order, Duke Johazlos an Taepe sent judges and coroners to the city of Hlucy. He came down on the side of the university, and had the city fined 900 pfund, and sent its burghermeister and bailiffs to prison in Harda. 
This was not the first such event in Hlucy’s history, with many murders being committed by students previously (half of all coroner’s courts between 579 and 590 being concerned with murders by students), who largely got away with light punishment due to their position as members of the university, and smaller riots and lynchings had also happened in 507 and 568. While the university would recover, several dozen professors fled the city for fear of being lynched, and were invited to the city of Pečka, where they successfully founded a large competing university.
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