The Perfect Heresy (46 page)

Bourg,
91
–92,
96
,
206

fall of,
99

Bourrel, Aude,
234

Bram (town),
106
,
109
,
111
,
124

Breakspear, Nicholas,
28

Byzantine Empire,
23

Byzantium,
108
,
119

Cabaret,
111
,
170

castle of,
104
–6

Cabrel, Francis,
247
–48

Caetani (clan),
35

Canon law,
119
,
120
,
140

Capets,
47
,
177
,
180
,
181
,
185
,
212

annexing Languedoc,
10

Carcassonne,
7
,
18
,
31
,
49
,
52
,
58
,
62
,
79
–80,
89
f
,
111
,
117
,
136
,
141

Cathars in,
100
,
173

in crusade,
88
–103

debate at,
59

dungeon of,
208
,
228
,
233

genie unleashed at,
137

Inquisition interrogations in,
228

Inquisition registers,
233

inquisitors in,
196
,
205
–6

pop exploitation of Catharism,
248

and royal crusade,
184
,
186

siege of,
99
–100,
105
,
206
–7

Simon de Montfort master of,
106
,
110

Castellar,
92
,
96
,
97
–99,
206

Castelnaudary,
135
,
173

Castile,
132
,
133

Catalans,
142
,
144

Catalonia,
92
,
137
,
225
,
240
,
243

Catapults,
112
–13,
114
,
127
,
165
,
166
,
217
,
218

Cathala, Arnold,
200

Cathar castles,
258
,
259

Cathar country,
247
–64

Cathar International,
21
,
239

Cathar leaders

poverty of,
61
–62

Cathar treasure,
217
,
255
,
260
–61

story of,
251
–52

Cathar wars, anonymous chronicler of,
167
–68

Catharism,
7
–9,
14
–15,
44
,
56
,
81
,
208
,
219
,
226
,
243

beliefs in,
10
–13,
21
–22,
24
–26,
31

defenders of, in Albigensian Crusade,
90

destruction of,
190
,
228
,
230

Dominican order and,
60

documentary record,
14
–15

havens for surplus women,
64

Italian,
229
–30

in Languedoc,
17
–31,
41
,
126
,
214

as mass phenomenon,
260

in our day,
15
–16,
247
–64

repression of,
179

resistance to Inquisition,
204
–5

reversion to,
170

Toulouse,
45
,
122
,
134

women in,
12
,
25
–26,
41
–44,
173

Cathars,
2
,
7
–16,
57
,
137
,
156
,
180
,
232
–38

betrayed to Inquisition,
196
,
222
–25,
229
,
234
–35,
237
–38,
246

call for crusade against,
69
–70

campaign against,
5
–6

in Carcassonne,
100
,
173

and Cistercian monks,
59

connection to Nazis,
257
–58

crusade against,
140
,
156

debates with Catholics,
55
–56,
57
,
58
,
62
–63,
71
,
94
,
130

in exile,
240
,
241

Inquisition in destruction of,
197
–200,
226
–30

in Languedoc,
8
,
9
–10,
183
,
222
–25,
239

legacy of,
262
–64

in Minerve,
111
–16,
125

at Montségur,
213
–21

network of,
161

organization,
31

and power struggle between feudal lords,
106
–7

Raymond Roger Trencavel and,
76
,
77

reemergence of,
173
–74

revival of,
233
–38

romanticized,
253

in Toulouse,
121
–23

valedictory,
222
–25

writings about,
249
–52,
253
,
255
–62

Cathedral of Ste-Cécile,
2
–5,
3
f

Catholic hierarchy,
170
–72

conclave on Raymond of Toulouse,
125
–26

Catholicism,
258

conversion to,
204

Catholics,
121

debates with Cathars,
55
–56,
57
,
58
,
62
–63,
94
,
130

Cavaille, William-Peter,
237

Celestine III, Pope,
35

Cellerien, Sicard,
31

Champagne,
8

Charlemagne,
46

Chartres,
181

Chatte (cat),
97
–98,
164
–65,
166
–67,
216

Christianity,
37

Church (the),
2
,
11
–12,
213

as cash cow for French monarchs,
181

dissatisfaction with,
8

and Languedoc,
49
–54,
118

role in world,
31

women in,
40
–41

Church leaders, Languedoc,
170
–72

Church of Rome,
109

Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Béziers),
79
,
85

Cistercian monastic movement/monks,
49
–51,
58
–60,
62
,
176
,
196
,
200

Civil society

destroyed by Inquisition,
198

Claricia,
36

Clement III, Pope,
36

Clergue, Peter,
238

Cologne, Germany,
30

Colonna (clan),
35
,
118

Comminges,
134

Comminges, count of,
139

Conrad of Marburg,
195
,
228

Consolamentum,
23
–24,
26
,
77
,
131
,
173
,
191
,
219
,
235
–36,
242

for Belibaste,
240
,
241

women receiving,
41
,
43

Constance (mother of Raymond VI),
44
,
45

Constantine,
37

Constantinople,
73
,
119

Consuls (capitouls),
52
,
120
,
160

Conti family,
35
–36

Conti di Segni, Lotario dei

see
Innocent III, Pope (Lotario dei Conti di Segni)

Corbières,
18
,
79
,
90
,
127
,
157
,
240
,
246
,
258
,
262

Cordes,
200

Counterculture,
258
–59

Couserans,
134

Credentes,
21
,
22
,
25
–26,
28
,
115
,
121
,
122
,
131
,
173
,
174
,
210
,
235

of Bélibaste,
241

burned at Montségur,
219

errors in beliefs of,
236

female,
42
,
43

in Inquisition,
199
,
208

number of,
41

refuge at Montségur,
214

Cross (the),
24
–25,
28

Crusade,
75
–80,
117
,
250

attack on Béziers,
78
–80,
81
–87,
88
,
221

end of,
179
–90

end of, ordered,
137
,
138
–39,
140

against lands of Toulouse,
129
–31

in Languedoc,
138
–41

military success of,
118

reinstated,
141

victim of quarantine,
169

see also
Albigensian Crusade

Crusaders,
70
–74

attack on Carcassonne,
88
–103

attack on Minerve,
112
–16

battle of Muret,
141
–49

destruction by,
109

promises made to,
72

Crusades,
26
,
239

bloody sideshows in,
73

doom for Jews in,
80

d’Ablis, Geoffrey,
237
,
238

d’Alayrac, Philip,
237
,
240

D’Alfaro, Raymond,
208
–9

Dante Alighieri,
58

De miseria condicionis humanae
(Clement III),
36

Debussy, Claude,
261

Delicieux, Bernard,
4
,
233
,
234
f

Diego de Azevedo, bishop of Osma,
60
–63

Dispossession, threat of,
202

Divine Comedy
(Dante),
58

Docetism,
30

Doinel, Jules,
254

Dominic, St.

see
Domingo de Guzmán (St. Dominic)

Dominicans,
60
,
172
,
174
–75,
202

and Inquisition,
7
,
14

inquisitors,
192
,
196
,
200
–205,
208
,
229
,
232

Domingo de Guzmán (St. Dominic),
x
,
15
,
60
–66,
61
f
,
71
,
129
,
173
,
185
,
202
,
239
,
250

canonized saint,
192

death of,
174
–75

Dondaine, Antoine,
14

Dualism,
13
,
18
,
23
,
81
,
111
,
121
,
236
,
238
,
245

Cathar,
11
,
12
,
24
,
41
,
173

“churches” of,
230

Dualists,
30
,
174

Dutch Rosicrucians,
259

Eco, Umberto,
228

Eleanor (wife of Raymond of Toulouse),
92

Eleanor of Aquitaine,
190
,
225

Endura (hunger strike),
236

England,
181

Enguerrand of Coucy,
129

Epernon, Robert d’,
22

Ermessinde (wife of Roger Bernard),
225

Esclarmonde of Foix,
x
,
43
,
110
–1,
153
,
176
,
250
,
256

film about,
262

operas about,
253

Etiennette de Pennautier (called Loba),
45
–46,
48
,
104
,
105
,
176

Eudes, duke of Burgundy,
69

Eudo,
27

Europe, Church in,
39

Excommunication, threat of,
202

Fabre, Raymond,
237

Faidits (fautors),
107

Fair heretics (
bela eretga
),
44

Fanjeaux (town),
18
,
43
,
62
,
110

Cathars in,
170
,
173

Fausta (wife of Constantine),
37
,
38

Félibrige,
253
,
254

Ferrer, Brother,
226
–27

Feudal lords

political power struggle between,
106
–7

Feudal order

French king represented sacred legitimacy of,
183

Feudal rules,
136
,
140

Feudalism,
44

Fiancée des ténèbres, La
(film),
262

Figueira, Guilhem,
171

First Crusade,
46

First World War,
254

Flanders,
52

Foix,
64
,
253