Cathar castles (in French Châteaux cathares) are a group of medieval castles located in the Languedoc region. Some had a Cathar connection in that they offered refuge to dispossessed Cathars in the thirteenth century. Many of these sites were replaced by new castles built by the victorious French Crusaders and the term Cathar castle is also applied to these fortifications despite their having no connection with Cathars.[1][page needed] The fate of many Cathar castles, at least for the early part of the Crusade, is outlined in the contemporary Occitan "Chanson de la Croisade", translated into English as the "Song of the Cathar Wars (the crusade)".
Catharcastles (in French Châteaux cathares) are a group of medieval castles located in the Languedoc region. Some had a Cathar connection in that they...
Castèl de Pèirapertusa) is a ruined fortress and one of the so-called Catharcastles located high in the French Pyrénées in the commune of Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse...
albigeois) or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what...
Château d'Angers, the massive Château de Vincennes and the so-called Catharcastles. During this era, France had been using Romanesque architecture like...
original Catharcastles left. Traces of human occupation date back to prehistory in a cave called the Trou de la ville at the foot of the Lastours castles. The...
ramparts dates from Gallo-Roman times. Cowper, Marcus (20 June 2012). CatharCastles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209–1300 - Marcus Cowper - Google...
Nîmes), medieval abbeys, Romanesque churches, and old castles (such as the ruined Catharcastles in the mountains of Corbières, testimony of the bloody...
and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Cathar Country" (French: Pays cathare) after a group of religious dissidents active...
dynasties of Barcelona and Toulouse, but finally they had to ally against the Cathar Crusade promoted by France and the Papacy in the beginning of the 13th century...
Château d'Angers, the massive Château de Vincennes and the so-called Catharcastles. During this era, France had been using Romanesque architecture like...
Cathars. In 1906, French esoteric writer Joséphin Péladan identified the Catharcastle of Montségur with Munsalväsche or Montsalvat, the Grail castle...
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