History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 168, the crusade, the Crusade against the Cathars, the beginning of the Inquisition.

Hello again.

Last week we saw the end of the crusade against the Cathars, with a peace treaty formalized in Paris in 1229. So after 20 years of crusading it was finally time for peace to return to

Longdock. What does this mean for the Cathars of Southern France? And what does this mean for

southern France itself? We're about to find out. If anyone in Long dock thought that post-Cruseed Long dock would be the same as

pre-Cruseed Long dock, they were about to have another think coming.

Pre-Cruseid Long dock was about to have another think coming.

Pre-Cruseed Long dock was a free-spirited independent sort of place,

difficult to govern tolerant of those of other faiths like Cathars, Waldensians and Jews, passionate, embracing of the

Troubadour culture, and generally vastly different in nature and culture to northern France.

They had a history of strong local self-governance, where their feudal overlords often struggling to maintain their authority.

A classic example of this was the city of Toulouse.

Although the city of Toulouse was the administrative base of the Count of Toulouse,

the city itself was governed by a council of citizens,

with the council not averse to making decisions contrary to the will and interests of their count.

Post- Crusade, however, it was pretty clear that all of this was about to change. After the crusade, in addition to the traditional governance

by the nobility of southern France, two other bodies were vying for control of the region and its people, the Catholic Church and the French Crown.

The Kingdom of France put in place a bureaucracy to control southern France and to tax southern France.

Senecials were appointed and installed in Carcasson, Boker and in the Toulouse and Albee regions. The Seneschal's exercised Royal Authority

and were assisted in applying military, fiscal and legal aspects of Northern French rule by a complex

web of bureaucrats.

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