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Albigensian Crusade: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1209 - 1229
Location France
Participants Cathari • Innocent III
Context Albi • Crusades

Timeline

The fortified cathedral at Béziers, France
Massacre at Béziers
July 21, 1209 - July 22, 1209
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Battle of Muret
September 12, 1213
Simon de Montfort
Siege of Toulouse
1217 - 1218

Key People

Innocent III
Innocent III
pope
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Raymond VI
count of Toulouse
Louis VIII
Louis VIII
king of France
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Simon de Montfort
French crusader
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Mathieu II, baron de Montmorency
French statesman

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