History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 152, the Crusade, the Crusade against the Cathars, the Siege of Kassenoy.

Hello again. Last week we saw the original aims of the Crusade met when all the rebel counts submitted themselves to the church,

along with the rebellious cities of Toulouse and N'Arbon.

With everyone bending to the will of the Church and agreeing to no longer support heretics, and with Pope Innocent's order that clerics no longer

recruit for the crusade still standing on paper at least it seems that the crusade is

finally over. But in reality the conflict is far from

over. Southern France still has a Simon de Monfort problem and Pope Innocent is beginning to realize

that maybe he has a Simon de Monfort problem as well.

Why? Well because Simon de Monfor is still at war. Despite the

original aims of the crusade being met, he is still determined to conquer all of Long dock and

become the sole ruler of southern France.

Pope Innocence's solution was to let it be known that all would be resolved when the

Ecumenical Council was convened, which would put the whole crusade against the

Cathars matter to rest once and for all.

Rum had it that the Ecumenical Council intended to achieve peace in southern France

by formally restoring the wayward but now reconciled rebel

counts to their lands. While this of course was great news for the counts and for southern France in general it was

not so good news for Simon. In fact the idea of being forced to hand back his

conquered territories was just not something that Simon could

bear to think about. Simon's solution was to ensure that by the time the

Ecumenical Council met, he would be the undisputed

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