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doeriver

(793 posts)

6. @Astrad

Reply to Astrad (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 10:21 AM

Feb 2012

Pope Innocent III ordered Albigensian Crusade which resulted in approximately 20,000 Cathar AND Catholic men. women, and children being slaughtered during the first major military operation --- the Massacre at Béziers --- in Southern France. The July 22, 1209 Massacre at Béziers was under command of the Papal Legate, the Abbot of Citeaux Arnaud Amalric.

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