French ecclesiastic Pierre de Castenau, born in …
Years: 1208 - 1208
January
French ecclesiastic Pierre de Castenau, born in the diocese of Montpellier, was in 1199 archdeacon of Maguelonne, and was appointed by Pope Innocent III as one of the legates for the suppression of the Cathar heresy in Languedoc.
In 1202, when a monk in the Cistercian abbey of Fontfroide, Narbonne, he had been designated to similar work, first in Toulouse, and afterwards at Viviers and Montpellier.
In 1207 he was in the Rhone valley and in Provence, where he had become involved in the strife between the count of Baux and the powerful count Raymond VI of Toulouse.
Raymond had refused to assist and was excommunicated in May 1207.
The Pope has called upon the French king, Philip II, to act against those nobles who permit Catharism, but Pierre has declined to act.
Count Raymond meets with the papal legate on January 13, 1208, and after an angry meeting, Castelnau is murdered the following day near Saint-Gilles, supposedly at Raymond's instigation.
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Years: 1208 - 1208
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Groups
- Jews
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Toulouse, County of
- France, (Capetian) Kingdom of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Cistercians, Order of the (White Friars)
- Catharism (Albigenses)
- Waldenses
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