26.1 Albigensian Crusade, Second Half 1215-1229
A History of Europe, Key Battles
Carl Rylett
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🗓️ 30 April 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Simon de Montfort probably hoped to quickly finish off the last pockets of resistance after the Battle of Muret. Instead conflict continued for another one and a half decades. What would happen to Simon, to Count Raymond and the people of Languedoc at this critical period for the region?
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| 0:29.0 | Place must be 18 or over. Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, the second half of the Albigensian Crusade, from 1215 to 1229. |
| 0:58.0 | In November of 1215, two years after the Battle of Mure, Pope Innocent III |
| 1:04.0 | summoned the fourth Lateran Council in Rome. |
| 1:07.0 | He had managed to organise the largest ever assembly of clergy in Western Europe, for they had a great many things to discuss. |
| 1:13.6 | The most important issues were a form of the Church and a call to recover the Holy Land. |
| 1:20.6 | Innocent was also extremely eager for a resolution of the situation in southern France, especially since it had become a hindrance to his plans for a fresh crusade. |
| 1:33.4 | By then, Simon de Montfort and his followers, under the banner of what we today call the Albigensian Crusade, |
| 1:40.0 | had secured control of most of the southern region of France, Langdok and much of Provence. |
| 1:48.5 | Count Raymond I of Toulouse was allowed to argue the case for the return of his lands, |
| 1:54.2 | or the clerics argued the case of Simon de Montfort. |
| 1:58.2 | Innocent appears to have had some sympathy for Raymond, |
| 2:02.7 | but the vast majority of the clergy were adamantly opposed to the Count. The official verdict of the Council was to condemn Raymond |
| 2:08.7 | for his negligence of his treatment of heretics, and ordered him not to return to his county. |
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