Antera of Coventry, also called Antera of Warwick, was involved in debt and property cases in Warwickshire in the first half of the thirteenth century. She had owned property in Coventry, for which she sued before the Exchequer of the Jews in 1218 and 1220, and she was heard concerning a debt owed to her by Thomas of Arden in 1220.

This Antera may be the same woman as Antera daughter of Leo son of Deulebene (the brother of Bonevie of Newbury), who, along with her sister Sigge and aunt Muriel, was involved in the brutal assault and alleged robbery of Bessa wife of Elias of Warwick in 1244. This assault at the door of the Warwick synagogue resulted in Bessa’s miscarriage of an infant too young for its sex to be distinguished. As a result, Antera and her father, sister, and aunt were arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London, and they were eventually exiled from Warwick.

Further reading

• Dace, Richard, The Jews of Warwick c.1180–c.1280, Local Historian, 37 (2007), 243–49. https://www.hastang.co.uk/pdf/Local%20Historian%2037%204.pdf.
• Hillaby, J. and C. Hillaby, The Palgrave Dictionary of Medieval Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave. 2015, s.v. Warwick, p. 383.
• MacLellan, Rory, Jewish History of the Medieval Tower of London, https://www.hrp.org.uk/about-us/research/the-jewish-history-of-the-medieval-tower-of-london/#outputs, [see Dataset no. 41].