View source for 1235-00-00-Limoges

{{Disease
|Date start=1235
|Date end=
|Country=France
|Victim=thousands
|Victim count type=absolute
|Disease=Ergotism
|Keyword=Cemetery; Epidemics; Mass grave
|Reference=Chronicon Girardi de Fracheto 1855, p. 4.
|Reference translation=Translation by Martin Bauch
|Summary=Outbreak of an [[epidemic]] in connection with [[ergotism]] in [[Limoges]] with [[mass grave]]s.
|Text=Sequitur tanta mortalitas quod tam igne sacro quam a pestilentia multa milia hominum moriuntur. Ego una die semel in cimiterio Sancti Geraldi Lemovicensis vidi centum pauperes sepeliri; frequentius autem xxx. et l.
|Language=Latin
|Translation=A mortality followed so that many thousands of people died, both from the sacred fire [ergotism] and from the pestilence. On one day, I myself saw a hundred poor people buried in the [[cemetery]] of Saint Gerald of Limoges; more frequently, however, thirty and fifty.
|Region=Limoges
}}