It was sparked by the murder of Peter de Castelnau, a Cistercian papal legate.
It was sparked by the murder of Peter de Castelnau, a Cistercian papal legate. Pitting Raymond VI backed by Peter II of Aragon, against Simon de Montfort backed by France, it resulted in Louis XI gaining the county of Toulouse in the 1229 Peace of Paris, and in the revitalization of Occitan literature. For ten points name this thirteenth-century crusade declared by Pope Innocent III, named for a group of southern French Manicheans also known as Cathars or Bogomils.
It was sparked by the murder of Peter de Castelnau, a Cistercian papal legate.
{Albigensian} crusade