17 events with tag "Cathars"
1167
ID: 197
Cathar council at Saint-Félix-Lauragais - dualist heresy organizes bishoprics across southern France
ID: 197
1200
ID: 5301
Cathar perfecti practice endura - ritual fasting unto death after receiving consolamentum, seen as liberation from evil material world
ID: 5301
1206
ID: 5309
Cathar beliefs on evil matter - taught material world created by evil demiurge, human souls trapped in bodies, procreation evil
ID: 5309
1208
ID: 5058
Albigensian Crusade begins - after murder of papal legate, crusade launched against Cathars in southern France
ID: 5058
1210
ID: 5299
July 1210
Massacre at Minerve - 140 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant and are burned alive, first mass burning of the crusade
ID: 5299
1211
ID: 5300
May 3, 1211
Massacre at Lavaur - 400 Cathar perfecti burned, Lady Guiraude thrown down well and stoned, 80 knights hanged
ID: 5300
1212
ID: 5310
Children's Crusade diverted from Holy Land - some end up fighting Cathars in southern France instead
ID: 5310
1215
ID: 5308
Cathar consolamentum described - single sacrament combining baptism, confirmation, ordination, and extreme unction, followed often by endura
ID: 5308
1243
ID: 5303
May 1243
Siege of Montségur begins - last major Cathar stronghold, 500 defenders hold mountaintop fortress for 10 months
ID: 5303
1244
ID: 5304
March 2, 1244
Montségur surrenders - after 10-month siege, terms allow defenders to leave if they recant
ID: 5304
1244
ID: 5305
March 16, 1244
Burning at Montségur - 225 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant, walk voluntarily into huge pyre at base of mountain
ID: 5305
1255
ID: 5306
Quéribus falls - last Cathar castle surrenders, organized Catharism effectively ended in Languedoc
ID: 5306
1318
ID: 5312
Jacques Fournier begins Pamiers inquisitions - meticulous interrogations of suspected Cathars, records daily life and beliefs in mountain villages
ID: 5312
1320
ID: 5313
Montaillou Cathar testimonies reveal disturbing beliefs - some perfecti taught that children were 'devils' until age of reason, pregnancy seen as demon possession
ID: 5313
1321
ID: 5307
Last known Cathar perfectus burned - Guillaume Bélibaste executed in Villerouge-Termenès, Catharism extinct
ID: 5307
1324
ID: 5314
Jacques Fournier's registers document Cathar endura practices - records of parents allowing sick children to die through endura rather than give them food
ID: 5314
1975
ID: 5316
Le Roy Ladurie publishes 'Montaillou' - uses Fournier's inquisition records to reconstruct medieval village life and Cathar beliefs
ID: 5316