Albigensian Crusade facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Albigensian Crusade |
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Part of the Crusades | |||||||
Massacre against the Albigensians by the Crusaders |
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Belligerents | |||||||
County of Provence-Forcalquier |
Marquisate of Provence
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
At least 200,000 to at most 1,000,000 Cathars killed | |||||||
Considered by many historians to be an act of genocide against the Cathars, including the coiner of the word genocide himself Raphael Lemkin |
The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign. Pope Innocent III started it to eliminate the Cathar heresy in Languedoc and make the Roman Catholic Church supreme there again. The nobles of the Kingdom of France did most of the fighting, and it resulted in a reduction in the number of practicing Cathars. It also resulted in a realignment of Occitania, bringing it into the sphere of the French crown.
Images for kids
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This Pedro Berruguete work of the 15th century depicts a story of Saint Dominic and the Albigensians, in which the texts of each were cast into a fire, but only Saint Dominic's proved miraculously resistant to the flames.
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Carcassonne with the Aude river in the foreground
See also
In Spanish: Cruzada albigense para niños