Page 123 - Microsoft Word - Belicena respaldo

As I wrote two days ago, when Innocent III takes the control of the Vatican, in the year
1198, the plans of the White Fraternity were almost accomplished. And in those plans figured,
as a pending issue to which should be given a prompt solution, the fulfillment of the
extermination sentence that existed over the Cathars. In principle, Innocent III sent special
legacies to travel around the country of Oc while they initiated a maneuver destined to submit
the King of Aragon, Peter II, to the vassalage of Saint Peter, what he achieved in 1204: in that
year Peter II was crowned in Rome by the Pope, who gave him the regalia, pallium, tunic,
scepter, orb, crown and miter; thereupon he demanded him a oath of loyalty and obedience to
the Pontiff, of defense of the Catholic faith, of the ecclesiastical Catholic rights in all his lands
and Seigniories, and to combat unto death the heresy. Peter II accepted all, who not
suspected his sad end in hands of the Cistercians, and, after receiving the Knight Sword in
hands of Innocent III, gives his Kingdom to Saint Peter, the Pope and his Successors.
To all this, the legacies had already alerted the loyal Bishops to the Golems and
effectuated a prolix census of the autochthonous prelates that they would never approve the
destruction of the civilization of Oc and that they would have to be expurgated from the
Church. In 1202 the Golems considered that the conditions were given to execute their plans
and decided to tend a mortal trap to the Earl of Tolosa, Raymond VI: the mechanism of this
trap aims to give a justification to the imminent destruction of the civilization of Oc and the
Cathar extermination; and the artifice, ideated to deceive the prey, was a propitiatory victim, a
Cistercian monk of the Frontforide Abbey called Peter of Pierre de Castelnau. Such sinister
personage was well prepared to the function that would have to perform, unknowing, of
course, because he stood out in matters such as the cruelty, the fanaticism, the hate against the
«heresy», etc.; and, to maximize his reckless an intolerant action, he was gifted of special
powers that placed him above any ecclesiastical authority except for the Pope and was ordained
to inquire about the faith of the Occitan: in only six years Pierre of Castelnau was murdered by
the own Golems and the responsibility of the crime fell upon the Earl of Tolosa: the trap was
closed. The response of Innocent III to the murder of his legacy would be the proclamation of a
saint Crusade against the Occitan heretics. Logically, the appeal of such Crusade was entrusted
to the Cistercian Order.
Inheritor of the region that the Romans denominated «Gallia Narbonensis» and
Charlemagne «Gothic Gallia», the Languedoc constituted a huge country of 40.000 square
kilometres, that confined with the Kingdom of France: in the East, with the shore of the Rhône,
and in the North, with Forez, Auvergne, Rouergne and Quercy. In the XIII century such country
was made according to the law of sovereignty of the King Aragon: amongst the most important
Seigniories was the Duchy of Narbonne, the Counties of Tolosa, Foix and Béarn, the
Viscounties of Carcassone, Béziers, Rhodes, Lussac, Albi, Nîmes, etc. Apart from these vassals,
Peter II had inherited the states of Catalonia, and the Counties of Rousillon and Pallars, and
had rights over the County of Provence. But no all ended there: Peter II,, whose sister was the
wife of the Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen, had married his two daughters with the Counts
of Tolosa, Raymond VI and Raymond VII, father and son, and corresponds him, for his own
marriage with Maria of Montpellier, rights over such County of the Languedoc. Hence, the
compromise of King Aragon with the countries of Oc could not be major.
The Cistercians called to the Crusade in all Europe after the death Pierre de Castelnau,
that was, since 1208. In July of 1209, the largest army ever seen in those lands crossed the

123