History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 186, the crusade against the Cathars, the last Cathar perfect.

Hello again. Last week we saw the imprisonment, trial and death of Bernard Delicia.

This week we will close the

door on the Cathar Perfect in Long dock in the 14th century.

We already saw two episodes back the execution of the

Oti brothers and many of the Cathar perfect from the network operating in the county of Waugh.

The brutal removal of the leaders of their faith caused a mass exodus of Cathars from the county of

Fwa. Many of them making the journey over the Pyrenees into the safety of

Catalonia in the kingdom of Aragon.

However, most of the Cathars of Monteu

stayed in Monteu after the execution of the perfect,

including the Cathar Priest Pierre Clegg.

By the year 1315, five years after the execution of the Ote brothers, things had returned to a state of relative

normality in the town. Pierre Clegg was now middle-aged, but still on the prowl for women in the village, juggling girlfriends

while dodging angry husbands.

On Friday the 10th of September 1316 the head Inquisitor of Carcasson

Jeffrey Darby died and was replaced by a man called Jean Duboon.

But if the Cathars who remained in Long dock thought that life was about to get easier because of this event, they would be wrong. Because six months later on the 19th of March 1317 Jacques Fournier

became the Bishop of Palmy. We saw in last week's episode that a year or so after his appointment Jacques

Fournier will preside over the trial of Bernard Delallissier.

What the Cathars of Long dock are yet to realize is that Jark Fournier, a

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