Pierre de Castelnau
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| Died | 15 January 1208 Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, France |
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| Beatified | 1208 by Pope Innocent III |
Pierre de Castelnau (? - died 15 January 1208), French ecclesiastic, made papal legate in 1199 to address the Cathar heresy, he was subsequently murdered in 1208. Following his death Pope Innocent III beatified him by papal order, excommunicated Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, and declared the Albigensian crusade.
Life
Pierre was born in the
Cistercian monk at the abbey of Fontfroide,[2] Narbonne, and by 1203 was confirmed as papal legate and chief inquisitor, first in Languedoc,[3] and afterwards at Viviers
and Montpellier.
In 1207, Pierre was appointed was in the
count of Baux and Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse. Castelnau was assassinated on 15 January 1208,[4] possibly by an agent of Raymond,[5] but this was never proven.[6] Nevertheless, Pope Innocent III held Raymond responsible and Pierre's murder was the immediate cause of Raymond's excommunication and the start of the Albigensian Crusade.[7][8]
Pierre was
beatified, through papal order, in 1208 by Pope Innocent III.[9] The relics of Pierre de Castelnau are interred in the church of the ancient Abbey of St-Gilles.[5]
References
- ^ Oldenbourg 2015, p. 12.
- ^ a b Sumption 1978, p. 68.
- ^ Graham-Leigh 2005, p. 76.
- ^ Madaule 1967, p. 165.
- ^ a b Sumption 1978, p. 15.
- ^ Taylor 2011, p. 89.
- ^ Sumption 1978, p. 77.
- ^ Graham-Leigh 2005, p. 2.
- ^ Ryan 2004, p. 3-4.
Sources
- Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 1-84383-129-5.
- Madaule, Jacques (1967). The Albigensian Crusade: An Historical Essay. Fordham University Press.
- Oldenbourg, Zoe (2015). Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade. Hachette UK.
- Ryan, James D. (2004). "Missionary Saints of the High Middle Ages: Martyrdom, Popular Veneration, and Canonization". The Catholic Historical Review. 90, No. 1 (Jan.): 1–28. S2CID 159687218.
- Sumption, Jonathan (1978). The Albigensian Crusade. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571200023.
- Taylor, Claire (2011). Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Medieval Quercy. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 9781903153383.
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