Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie's microhistory is about the village of (*) Montaillou, a holdout for these people long after the fall of Montségur.
One of these people, Béatrice de Planissoles, was accused of witchcraft and induced to testify against her lover, the priest Bernard Clergue, by Jacques Fournier, who served as Bishop of Pamiers and later as Pope Benedict XII. Clergue justified seducing his string of married members of this group with reference to its prohibition on sex within marriage. Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie's microhistory is about the village of (*) Montaillou, a holdout for these people long after the fall of Montségur. These people held that the physical world was created by the demiurge Rex Mundi, and their most ardent believers, who had received their one sacrament of Consolamentum, were known as bonhommes or parfaits. The assassination of the papal envoy Pierre de Castelnau by agents of Raymond of Toulouse sparked Simon de Montfort's crusade against these people. For 10 points, name this heretical religious group of southwestern France mostly rooted out in a 13th-century genocide.
One of these people, Béatrice de Planissoles, was accused of witchcraft and induced to testify against her lover, the priest Bernard Clergue, by Jacques Fournier, who served as Bishop of Pamiers and later as Pope Benedict XII.
Cathars or Albigensians