History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 180, the crusade against the Cathers, the Myokin' plot.

Hello again.

Last week we saw King Philip the 4th and Queen Joan tour the region of southern France.

To say the tour was not a success is an understatement. To the Franciscan friar Bernard Delicier,

the tour had provided an ideal opportunity to sway the French king to his cause.

If Philip the fair could only be made to see that Southern France would rise in full rebellion

unless the Inquisition was shut down, then Bernard would have achieved his goal.

The French monarch was the only person with the power to put an end to the oppression and persecution carried out by the Dominican

friars, and Bernard was desperate to get King Philip on side. Too desperate in fact.

In his eagerness to convince King Philip of the validity of his arguments,

he became reckless and stopped playing the intricate and complex game of diplomacy,

instead resorting to telling King Philip in no uncertain terms what he should do. The unsurprising result of this miscalculation on Bernard's

part was that Bernard was left out in the cold. Any lines of communication or goodwill which Bernard had previously

established with the French king were immediately shut down.

King Philip turned his back on Bernard and headed back to Paris, and the Inquisition resumed in Long dock.

Now, apparently, before the Royal Party left Southern France, the King's powerful

advisor, the man who had brought down a Pope, Giorm de Nogare, took Bernard aside and told him something that really Bernard

should have worked out for himself. The current pope was a Dominican.

King Philip had played a very risky hand in defeating Pope Boniface the 8th.

There was no way he was going to draw more attention to himself by making an enemy of the new Pope.

No Dominican Pope was going to sit idly by while the French monarch wound down the Inquisition in southern France.

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