Chronology of the crusade

• 1167: cathare council of Saint-Felix-of-Caraman (today Holy Felix Lauragais): creation of the four cathare bishops (Albi, Agen, Carcassonne and Toulouse).
  
  
• 1208: murder of the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau close to Saint-Gilles.
  
  
• 1209: beginning of the crusade
  - sack of béziers
  - The city Carcassonne: death of the viscount of Trencavel
  - first cathares to be burnt at the stake in Castres
  
  
• 1210: Mutilation of the people living in Bram, falls of Minerve (stake of 140 cathares), Termes and Puivert.
  
  
• 1211: In march Cabaret was taken (Lastours) in Mars. Siege of Lavaur, Cassés. Failure of the first siege of Toulouse. Battle of Castelnaudary.
  
  
• 1212: Conquest of Bas-Quercy, Argennais and the Comminges.
  
  
• 1213: Battle of Muret.
  
  
• 1215: 4th council of Latran : the count of Toulouse host his rights to the advantage of Simon de Montfort.
  
  
• 1216: Death of the pope Innocent III replaced by Honorius III.
  
  
• 1217: Return of Raymond VI in Toulouse: the second siege started.
  
  
• 1218: Death of Simon de Montfort under the walls of Toulouse.
  
  
• 1222: Raymond VII became count of Toulouse after the death of Raymond VI.
  
  
• 1223: Death of Philippe Auguste. Louis VIII took the continuation.
  
  
• 1226: 5th cathare bishop: Razès. This was the beginning of the crusade of Louis VIII who will die the same year (Blanche de Castille will be regent).
  
  
• 1227: Cathare became clandestine ("underground") : a council of Toulouse codified the repression of the heresy.
  
  
• 1233: Beginning of the Inquisition, ordered by the pope Gregoire IX.
  
  
• 1240: Peyrepertuse was taken.
  
  
• 1242: Murder of 2 inquisitors in Avignonet.
  
  
• 1243: Beginning of the siege of Montségur.
  
  
• 1244: Montségur was taken. Stake. This is the theoretical end of the catharism (Guillaume Bélibaste is the last perfect and he will be burnt in 1321 in Villerouge-Termenès).
  
  

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