The Mistery of Belicena Villca Pierre de Castelnau is assassinated by the Golen themselves , and the responsibility for the crime placed on the Count of Toulouse : the trap was closed . Innocent III ' s response to the murder of his legate would be the proclamation of a holy Crusade against the Occitan heretics . Logically , the appeal for that Crusade was entrusted to the Congregation of the Cistercian .
Heir to the region that the Romans called " Gallia Narbonensis " and Charlemagne " Gothic Gaul ", the Languedoc was a huge country of 40,000 square kilometers , which bordered with the Kingdom of France : in the East , with the bank of the Rhône , and in the North , with the Forez , the Auvergne , the Rouergne and the Quercy . In the thirteenth century that country was , in fact and in law , under the sovereignty of the King of Aragón : among the most important Manors were the Duchy of Narbonne , the Counties of Toulouse , Foix and Bearn , the Vis-counties of Carcassonne , Beziers , Rhodes , Lussac , Albi , Nimes , etc . Besides these vassals , Pedro II had inherited the states of Catalonia and the Counties of Roussillon and Pallars , and owned rights to the County of Provence . But not everything ended there : Pedro II , whose sister was the wife of Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen , had married two daughters to the Counts of Toulouse , Raymond VI and Raymond VII , father and son , and they corresponded to him by his own marriage to Mary de Montpellier , rights over that County of Languedoc . The King of Aragón ' s commitment to the country of Oc could not be , therefore , greater .
The Cistercians called for the Crusade throughout Europe after the death of Pierre de Castelnau , that is , since 1208 . In July 1209 , the largest army that was ever seen in those lands , crossed the Rhône and marched towards the country of Oc ; As head of it , Innocent III appointed a Golen who seemed to have emerged from the very entrails of Hell : Arnaud Amalric , Abbot of Citeaux , the mother monastery of the Cistercian Order . Satan ' s army , composed of three hundred and fifty thousand crusaders , is soon laying siege to the small fortified town of Beziers ; the sentence of extermination will be fulfilled at last ! Hours later the defenders yield a door and the infernal troops are ready to conquer the square ; the military chiefs interrogate Arnaud Amalric on how to distinguish heretics from Catholics , to which the Abbot of Citeaux replies -- “ Kill , kill everyone , then God will distinguish in Heaven ” -- . Nobles and commoners , women and children , men and elders , Catholics and heretics , all of the thirty thousand inhabitants of Beziers are beheaded or burned in the following moments . Bezier ' s body is the Eucharistic Lamb of the Communion of the Crusaders , the Sacrament of Blood and Fire that constitutes the Sacrifice to the One Creator God Jehovah Satan . Punishment of the Creator God , Condemnation of the White Fraternity , Sanction of the dark Atlanteans , Priest ' s Atonement , Golen ' s Revenge , Hebrew Lesson , Catholic Penance , the Beziers ' massacre is archetypal : it has been and will be , whenever the peoples of the Pure Blood try to regain their Hyperborean Heritage ; until the Final Battle .
After Beziers , Carcassonne falls , where five hundred heretics are burned , native prelates deposed , and the Viscount Raymond Roger , captured and humiliated . Pedro II arrives in Carcassonne to intercede for his vassal and friend without getting anything from the papal legate : this impotence gives an idea of the power that the Church had acquired , in those centuries , over the " Temporal Kings ". The King of Aragón retires , then , and concentrates on another Crusade , which is taking place simultaneously : the fight against the Muslims of Spain ; he believes that by participating in that feat his honor would not be seen compromised , as would be the case if he intervened in the repression of his subjects ; However , the lack of honor was already great because he abandoned them in the hands of their worst enemies . While the Golen Crusade is exterminating the Cathars castle by castle , and tries to destroy the County of Toulouse , Pedro II faces the Muslims with success in the reconquest of Valencia . He returns , at last , to Narbonne , where he meets with the Cathar Counts of Toulouse and Foix , and with the military leader of the Crusade , Simon de Montfort , and the papal legates : again , he achieves nothing , but this time his condition as a Catholic is questioned and threatened with
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