Events Tagged: "Albigensian"

Philip Augustus allows Albigensian Crusade - northern barons invade Languedoc, eventually brings south under royal control

Albigensian Crusade begins destroying troubadour culture - northern French attack Occitan lands, courts destroyed, patrons killed

Massacre at Béziers - Arnaud Amaury orders 'Kill them all, God will know his own' - 20,000 civilians slaughtered including Catholics

Siege of Carcassonne - Simon de Montfort takes city, becomes leader of crusade, Raymond-Roger Trencavel dies in captivity

St. Dominic spreads Rosary devotion (1212-1214) - Documented: 100,000 heretics return to Catholic faith through Rosary crusade

Simon de Montfort killed at Toulouse - skull crushed by stone from mangonel operated by women and girls of the city

Louis VIII leads royal crusade against Cathars - takes Avignon after siege, establishes royal power in south