History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 100. Episode 122 the Crusade against the Cathars Viscount Simon de Monfort.

Hello again.

Last week we saw the city of Carcasson fall to the Crusaders and saw Simon de Monfort elected

as the new lord of Carcason.

Simon's new title, one which he created himself,

is the rather grand sounding Count of Leicester, Lord of Monfor and Viscount of Bezier and Carcasson.

It all sounds very impressive, but as far as southern France is concerned, what exactly is Simon de Monfor, Count of

Leicester, Lord of Monfor, and Vai Count of Béz and Carcasson, Lord of.

Well, he has the two major towns in the region, Bézier and Carcasson, under his control.

Bézier is a blood-splattered burnt-out ruin containing no people, and Carcasson is an intact city

containing much booty but also with a population count of zero.

He also controls the abandoned towns on the road between B Bezier and Carcasson.

As to the remainder of his domain, the Vai County of Bezier and the Vai County of Carcasson both contain a mixture of fortified towns and

strongholds, some of which are now prepared to eject or kill their Cathars and submit to his rule,

and some of which have decided to keep their Cathars and stand defiantly against their new Northern French overlord.

So I guess Simon de Monfort is going to have to take the Crusader Army

and systematically subdue every single one of these

defiant strongholds in order to secure his position. But there is a major flaw in this plan. That floor being the fact that the

Crusader Army is dispersing. After the fall of Carcasson, the army pretty much slapped itself on

the back, congratulated itself on a job well done, then with its sins cleansed and its soul saved, it started thinking

about the harvest season back home, which was just about to get underway. Then it prepared to wave

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