History of the crusades against the Albigenses in the thirteenth century [tr. from part of the Histoire des Français] with an intr. essay by the translator |
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... that of Louis VIII , 1218 to 1226 · 135 CHAP . V. Affairs of the Albigenses , from the death of Louis VIII , 1226 , to the Peace of Paris , 1229 ; and its final ratification , 1242 - 202 WART , LLIAM ST . London . 600101770M 1655 OF.
... that of Louis VIII , 1218 to 1226 · 135 CHAP . V. Affairs of the Albigenses , from the death of Louis VIII , 1226 , to the Peace of Paris , 1229 ; and its final ratification , 1242 - 202 WART , LLIAM ST . London . 600101770M 1655 OF.
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... , 1218 to 1226 CHAP . V. 135 Affairs of the Albigenses , from the death of Louis VIII , 1226 , to the Peace of Paris , 1229 ; and its final ratification , 1242 - 202 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . THE attention of the public has been.
... , 1218 to 1226 CHAP . V. 135 Affairs of the Albigenses , from the death of Louis VIII , 1226 , to the Peace of Paris , 1229 ; and its final ratification , 1242 - 202 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . THE attention of the public has been.
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... peace and security , and apportion to each of the parties its merited reward . To fill up and verify this rapid sketch would embody all the principal circumstances of eccle- siastical history ; whilst the object of the present essay is ...
... peace and security , and apportion to each of the parties its merited reward . To fill up and verify this rapid sketch would embody all the principal circumstances of eccle- siastical history ; whilst the object of the present essay is ...
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... peace . Whilst their enemies endeavoured to blacken their reputation by charging them with permitting , in their teaching , the most licentious manners , and with practising , in secret , all kinds of disorders , they still allowed that ...
... peace . Whilst their enemies endeavoured to blacken their reputation by charging them with permitting , in their teaching , the most licentious manners , and with practising , in secret , all kinds of disorders , they still allowed that ...
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... peace between them . He first made application to the barons , and obtained their promise , that if Raymond VI would acquiesce in their preten- sions , they would employ all their assembled forces in the extermination of the heretics ...
... peace between them . He first made application to the barons , and obtained their promise , that if Raymond VI would acquiesce in their preten- sions , they would employ all their assembled forces in the extermination of the heretics ...
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abbot of Citeaux accused afterwards Albi Albigenses Albigeois Amaury de Montfort amongst ancient archbishop army Arnold attack Avignon besieged Beziers bishop of Toulouse Carcassonne cardinal castle catholic cause Cern Christians Chron church of Rome Citeaux Cominges council count of Foix count of Toulouse count Raymond countship crusaders defend Eccles enemies engaged excommunication faicts de Tolosa faith fiefs French gén Guil Guill heresy heretics Hist Histoire de Languedoc Holy Land Honorius inhabitants Innocent Innocentii inquisition king of Aragon king of England knights Languedoc legate lords Louis VIII monks Narbonne negociations oath Paris persecution Peter Petri Val Petri Vallis Philip Augustus Podio Laur Podio Laurentii pope possession preach prelates Preuves priests prince province Raymond Roger Raymond VII Raynaldi Annal reformation Roman Saint sect siege Simon de Mont Simon de Montfort tion Toulousians vassals Vaux-Cernay viscount Waldenses whilst XXIII XXIV zeal
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Page xv - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Page xv - Therefore watch, and remember that by the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Page xv - Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Page xv - Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Page 152 - ... affairs ; and feeling some remorse at the manner in which he had amassed his treasures, he appropriated a part of them to the express purpose of repaying, after his death, those persons whose money he had unjustly taken in his lifetime. He died July 14, 1223, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, and the forty-fourth of his reign. By his first wife, Isabella of Hainault, he had only one child — Louis, who succeeded him. By Maria of Dalmatia he had a son ana a daughter.
Page xl - 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 71 - 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 81 - They were, however, forced to content themselves with such fugitive peasants , as they could surprise in the fields, or some prisoners, taken in the castles which had dared to resist them. Those of Saint Marcel and of Saint Antonin furnished them with a considerable number of human victims. But when Simon de Montfort saw that the greater part of the population of the countries, where heresy had prevailed, was exterminated, and that the remainder had placed themselves out of the reach of his attacks,...
Page 31 - 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 alive. Historians differ as to the number of victims. The abbot of Citeaux, feeling some shame for the butchery which he had ordered, in his letter to Innocent III reduces it to fifteen thousand ; others make it amount to sixty.
Page 71 - 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.