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The Canon · No. 063
Catharism
The Albigensians; the Good Men
c.1140 – c.1330 CE · Esoteric / Occult · Extinct · Languedoc, Lombardy, the Rhineland
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1140s CE Cathar communities documented in the Rhineland and Languedoc.
- 1167 CE Council of Saint-Félix organises Cathar bishoprics.
- 1208 CE The papal legate Pierre de Castelnau is murdered.
- <strong>1209–1229 CE</strong> The Albigensian Crusade. At Béziers in 1209 the population is massacred; the legate is reported to have said kill them all, God will know his own. Casualty estimates for the crusade run from 200,000 to a million, and it destroys the independent culture of Occitania.
- 1231 CE The papal Inquisition is created, substantially in response to Catharism. This is the institution's origin.
- 1244 CE Montségur falls. Around 220 perfecti walk into a mass pyre rather than recant.
- 1321 CE Guillaume Bélibaste, the last known perfectus in Languedoc, is burned.
- c.1330 CE Catharism extinct.
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