History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 181, the Crusade against the Cathars betrayal.

Hello again.

Now, before we get started on this week's episode,

some of you may have experienced some problems

accessing last week's episode.

That's because a couple of hours after I loaded my episode to my host site,

Portomatic, their servers malfunctioned. After a few hours of frantic activity,

they managed to get the servers up and running again.

But iTunes, which automatically uploads new episodes onto its system,

read all the episodes on the rebooted Potomatic servers as being all new

episodes, and proceeded to download them merrily onto everyone's devices. So if you were subscribed to this podcast through iTunes

you may have had the entire series redownloaded onto your device. Bonus!

So sorry to everyone who experienced delay or confusion or had their device clogged up with unnecessary past downloads. Technology is so much

fun sometimes. Hopefully Potomatic have now addressed the problem and it won't happen again.

Okay, on to this week's episode.

Last week we saw the Franciscan friar Bernard Delicia hatch a crazy plot to eject the

Dominican Inquisitor's from Long dock with the assistance of the Tiny Kingdom of Mayoka.

With the support of the councillors of Carcason, Bernard travelled to the Kingdom of Mayoka,

only to have his plan unravel spectacularly.

Now events seem to be catching up with Bernard.

Not only has he just committed an act of treason against the Kingdom of France by

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