HIST 359 GENOCIDE MIDTERM QUESTIONS 1: Maxym Beaudry-Perron9775293
Dear Güyük Khan
I am reporting to you the information I gathered as your emissary on the killings committed against the Cathars here in France. My intention is to underline the important elements of these events so you can better understand the key aspects of the matter at hand. The Roman Catholic Church launched the Holy war also known as a Crusade against the Cathars who reside mainly in the south of France after his diplomatic efforts failed and his personal representative Pierre de Castelnau was murdered. Their intentions were to eliminate the Cathars as they imposed an immense threat to the Roman Catholic Church’s authority in terms of saturating its legitimacy and they achieved great success. The …show more content…
Jews, Catholics, Cathars all lived together without any segregation at all. The city of Bezier was the first city to experience the massacres soon to dawn on almost all the Cathars of the time in the region. On July 22nd 1209, the Pope Innocent’s III army of thirty thousand men demanded no less then the surrender of approximately 200 heretics that lived within the city walls of the fortified town. Beziers Catholics denied selling out their Cathar citizens and an intense massacre followed. When crusaders asked how to identify who was Christian and who was Cathar, they were instructed to “kill them all and God would recognize his own.” Not one citizen of Bezier was spared, Catholics, Jews and Cathars were all slaughtered together and the entire elimination of the city’s men woman and children only took 3 hours and then they looted the city and burned it. After their first successful crusade on Bezier, they decided to head for Carcassonne. The citizens of Carcassonne under the lead of viscount Raymond Roger Trencavel, prepared as well as they could and in august 1209, the siege on Carcassonne began. The siege only lasted 2 weeks and those still alive surrendered and were forced to leave
Dear Güyük Khan
I am reporting to you the information I gathered as your emissary on the killings committed against the Cathars here in France. My intention is to underline the important elements of these events so you can better understand the key aspects of the matter at hand. The Roman Catholic Church launched the Holy war also known as a Crusade against the Cathars who reside mainly in the south of France after his diplomatic efforts failed and his personal representative Pierre de Castelnau was murdered. Their intentions were to eliminate the Cathars as they imposed an immense threat to the Roman Catholic Church’s authority in terms of saturating its legitimacy and they achieved great success. The …show more content…
Jews, Catholics, Cathars all lived together without any segregation at all. The city of Bezier was the first city to experience the massacres soon to dawn on almost all the Cathars of the time in the region. On July 22nd 1209, the Pope Innocent’s III army of thirty thousand men demanded no less then the surrender of approximately 200 heretics that lived within the city walls of the fortified town. Beziers Catholics denied selling out their Cathar citizens and an intense massacre followed. When crusaders asked how to identify who was Christian and who was Cathar, they were instructed to “kill them all and God would recognize his own.” Not one citizen of Bezier was spared, Catholics, Jews and Cathars were all slaughtered together and the entire elimination of the city’s men woman and children only took 3 hours and then they looted the city and burned it. After their first successful crusade on Bezier, they decided to head for Carcassonne. The citizens of Carcassonne under the lead of viscount Raymond Roger Trencavel, prepared as well as they could and in august 1209, the siege on Carcassonne began. The siege only lasted 2 weeks and those still alive surrendered and were forced to leave