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Showing posts with label Albigensian Crusade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albigensian Crusade. Show all posts
28 April 2026

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl

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We have to distinguish Simon's title, because there was more than one prominent Englishman with that name. Simon the 6th Earl of Leicest...
15 December 2025

The Maimonidean Controversy, Part 2

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European Jews were not accustomed to contemplating either Arabic philosophy or what they called "Greek wisdom," the works of Arist...
17 June 2025

James the Pawn

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James I of Aragon  (2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was used by his father as a political tool. He was the only child of Peter II of Aragon ...
02 April 2023

The First Mass Murderer

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I have mentioned the 12th century heresy called Catharism . The attempts to stamp it out are called the Albigensian Crusade (and sometimes t...
05 November 2022

Louis the Saint

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Louis IX of France (1214 - 1270) was crowned at the age of 12 after his father Louis VIII "The Lion" died of dysentery coming back...
13 July 2022

Jacques de Vitry

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It seems unfair that I mention Jacques de Vitry here and here and here , and don't really tell much more than he was a cardinal. He wa...
16 March 2016

The Siege of Montségur

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The Cathars, mentioned yesterday, were a largely peaceful group that attempted to lead lives of Christian simplicity, rejecting the materia...
25 June 2014

Simon de Montfort

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Plaque on the site of Montfort's death Simon de Montfort has been mentioned before, opposing Henry III , but that was the 6th Earl ...