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... Death of Raymond VI • 165 1223. Encouraging prospects of his son 166 Conrad , the new legate , convokes the council of Sens against the reviving Albigenses Attempts to engage the king of France against them • 168 . 169 Death of Philip ...
... Death of Raymond VI • 165 1223. Encouraging prospects of his son 166 Conrad , the new legate , convokes the council of Sens against the reviving Albigenses Attempts to engage the king of France against them • 168 . 169 Death of Philip ...
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... Death of Fouquet , the ferocious bishop of Toulouse 239 of the people continued Raymond's situation ameliorated , but the oppression · 1231. The Albigensian sects , suppressed in their own country , are scattered over Europe ...
... Death of Fouquet , the ferocious bishop of Toulouse 239 of the people continued Raymond's situation ameliorated , but the oppression · 1231. The Albigensian sects , suppressed in their own country , are scattered over Europe ...
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... death was the penalty of disclosure or detection . The first discovery of a congregation of this kind within the borders of the church , was in A.D. 1017 , at Orleans in France . The heresy had been lately introduced from Italy ; and ...
... death was the penalty of disclosure or detection . The first discovery of a congregation of this kind within the borders of the church , was in A.D. 1017 , at Orleans in France . The heresy had been lately introduced from Italy ; and ...
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... death at her instigation . The doctrines of most of them par- took more or less of the Gnostic principles , such as the inherent depravity of all matter , the duty of rigid abstinence for the purpose of mortifying the body , and the ...
... death at her instigation . The doctrines of most of them par- took more or less of the Gnostic principles , such as the inherent depravity of all matter , the duty of rigid abstinence for the purpose of mortifying the body , and the ...
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... death at the hands of the enraged populace . In A.D. 1119 , a council was held at Toulouse against the heretics ; and they were condemned again in the great Lateran council at Rome in 1139. In 1160 , they crossed in great numbers from ...
... death at the hands of the enraged populace . In A.D. 1119 , a council was held at Toulouse against the heretics ; and they were condemned again in the great Lateran council at Rome in 1139. In 1160 , they crossed in great numbers from ...
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abandoned abbot of Citeaux afterwards Albig Albigenses Albigeois Amaury amongst archbishop arms army assembled attack barons besieged Beziers bishop of Toulouse capitulation Carcassonne Castelnau castles catholic cause Cern Christian church Citeaux Cominges council count of Foix count of Toulouse count Raymond crusaders defend doctrines Eccles enemies engaged Epistolæ excommunication extermination faicts d'armas faicts de Tolosa faith fanaticism fiefs Fouquet France French gén Guil Guill heresy heretics Hist Histoire de Languedoc Historia Holy Land inhabitants Innocent Innocent III Innocentii king of Aragon king of England knights Languedoc Lavaur legate lords massacre monks of Citeaux Montpellier Narbonne Paterins persecution Peter Petri Val Petri Vallis Cern Philip Augustus pillage Podio Laurentii pope possession preach Preuves priests prince province Raymond Roger Raymond VI Raymond VII Raynaldi Annal received reformation Saint sects siege Simon de Montfort soldiers terror tion Toulousians vassals Vaux-Cernay whilst xxii zeal
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Page 59 - Beziers, and had pillaged the houses of all that they thought worth carrying off, they set fire to the city in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funeral pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being was left alive.
Page 33 - We cannot, therefore, be astonished if they have represented them to us with all those characters which might render them the most monstrous, mingled with all the fables which would serve to irritate the minds of the people against those who professed them.
Page 46 - ... fathers, we must not observe faith towards those who keep not faith towards God, or who are separated from the communion of the faithful : we discharge, by apostolical authority, all those who believe themselves bound towards this Count by any oath either of...
Page 95 - Creator. The knights mounted the breach ; resistance was impossible ; and the only care of Simon de Montfort was to prevent the crusaders from instantly falling upon the inhabitants, and to beseech them rather to make prisoners, that the priests of the living God might not be deprived of their promised joys.
Page 96 - The count, seeing that this would produce great delay, ordered the rest to be massacred ; and the pilgrims, receiving the order with the greatest avidity, very soon massacred them all upon the spot.
Page 30 - French, to whom they were indeed inferior in the art of war, but whom they greatly excelled in all the attainments of civilization. " The numerous courts of the small princes, amongst whom these countries were divided, aspired to be models of taste and politeness. They lived in festivity; their chief occupation was tournaments, courts of love, and of poesy, in which questions of gallantry were gravely decided. The cities were numerous and flourishing. Their forms of government were...
Page 82 - Some castles, calculating too favourably upon their strength, endeavoured to resist him ; that of Brom was taken by assault the third day of the siege, and Simon de Montfort chose out more than a hundred of its wretched inhabitants, and having torn out their eyes, and cut off their noses, sent them, in that state, under the guidance of a one-eyed man, to the castle of Cabaret, to announce to the garrison of that fortress the fate which awaited them. The castle of...
Page 63 - ... lords of the army were assembled. After having nobly and powerfully defended his conduct, he declared that he submitted, as he had always done, to the orders of the church, and that he awaited the decision of the council. But the legate was profoundly penetrated with the maxim of Innocent III, that " to keep faith with those who have it not, is an offence against the faith.
Page 51 - We counsel you, with the apostle Paul, to employ guile with regard to this Count, for in this case it ought to be called prudence. We must attack separately those who are separated from unity : leave for a time the count of Thoulouse, employing toward him a wise dissimulation, that the other heretics may be the more easily defeated, and that afterwards we may crush him when he shall be left alone...
Page 84 - The heretics were, in the mean time, assembled, the men in one house, the women in another, and there, on their knees, and resigned to their fate, they prepared themselves, by prayer, for the punishment which awaited them.