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The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Hardcover, New)
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The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Hardcover, New)
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A fresh look at the Albigensian Crusade, highlighting its effects
upon the indigenous nobility. The Albigensian Crusade was called by
Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the Count of Toulouse in response
to the murder of the papal legate Pierre des Castelnau. The Pope's
aim was to force the Count and other nobles in Languedocto take
action against the Cathar heretics in their lands, but in the end,
the defeat of Catharism in the south of France was achieved through
the establishment of the Inquisition and the extension of French
royal authority to thearea. While some Occitan noble families
survived the crusade, others were destroyed and the behaviour of
the crusaders towards the local nobility has often been regarded as
rather arbitrary, unconnected to how these families related to each
other before 1209. This study takes the case of the Trencavel
Viscounts of Beziers and Carcassonne, who were the only members of
the higher nobility to lose their lands to the crusade, and argues
that an understandingof how the Occitan nobility fared in the
crusade years must be based in the context of the politics of the
noble society of Languedoc, not only in the thirteenth century but
also in the twelfth. ELAINE GRAHAM-LEIGH gained her Ph.D. from the
University of London.
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