ss@id TIHGAOd aHL Atqis ‘c."W pue'y"M, Aq powejsueyy, sisuaBiqiy visorsey s,heuraQ-ap-xneA $9] JO 13}9g ddaVSNIO NVISNAOIGTV FHL 410 AYOLSIH FHLpublished, per transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, © prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1998 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Reprinted in Paperback 2000, 2002 ‘Transferred to digital printing ISBN 0 85115 807 2 “The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brower Inc (668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA website: www boydellandbrewer.com ACIP catalogue record for this book is available ‘from the British Library Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-49978 ha pultication ie printed ot ach: tre paper CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations Maps Family trees Introduction The general background The text and translation The notes and appendices ‘The author's life and the composition of the Historia The value of the Historia The historical background Bibliographical note Historia Albigensis Summary Translation and notes Appendices .. On the translation of certain terms The massacre at Béziers, 22 July 1209 ‘Simon de Montfort, his family and background Mercenaries and the Crusade ‘The chronology of events in the autumn of 1209 ‘Translated extracts from papal correspondence, 1207-1215 Innocent III and the Albigensian Crusade The Statutes of Pamiers, December 1212: translation > rmommoos translation Index of persons Index of places William of Puylaurens’ account of the battle of Muret 1213: xvi 281 281 289 294 299 302 304 313 321 330 334 337[443] At this time the noble Count of Montfort and the bishops of the Al- bigensian area sent two abbots to the King.” they took with them the letter issued by the Pope and his instructions.*! They begged him to stop helping the h and attacking 1c! the King of Arago’ long ago conceived again: mn enormous crowd of cav all the lands whi by God's grace and the he! laving crossed the Gascon boundary he made towards Tou whole area. The loa inhabitants oie, many dee al castra the ungodly Kin de eat poor fortified eastram about tree leagues from Toul 1e place was defended by abot he was promising the excommunicants and heretics, so as to ensure our safety an later tide of events proved that there is no wisdom nor counsel against King mustered the citizen: Muret 5 [448] Siege and glorious battle of Muret: Murer, se below, $460 ea Marc, se. 131 10 $256 above. ‘32 King Peter clearly had no itention of treating withthe legates, but his response tothe embesy tothe fect that he would obey Innocent may also in part reflec “King was clearly failing to ac as instructed by Innocent that he could safely ignoce the legates and that by the ‘made he would have defeated the crusaders and be able 83 Proverbs 21, 30.