- Berechiah of Nicole
- (d. 1278)English financier and scholar. In 1255 he was arrested in connection with the murder of Hugh of Lincoln, but was later released.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Berechiah of Nicole
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