sentences:  Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, invited Rabbi Ya'aqov son of Rabbi Yequtiel, and thirty other Jews, to settle in Flanders in 1023.While it is not known precisely where they settled, this is considered to be the establishment of the Jewish community in the region.The first Jewish presence in Antwerp is attested to by the will of Henry III, the Duke of Brabant and Margrave of Antwerp, who in 1261 expressed his wish that the Jews of Brabant should be expelled and destroyed because they were all considered "usurers".