Crusade Texts in Translation Editorial Board (Reading), Peter Edbury (Cardiff), gham), and Norman Housley (Leicester) Peter W. Edbury ‘The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade Sources in transtation In paperback n of the ‘Minerarium peregrinorum et gesia regis Ricardi Tom Asbridge and Susan Ec im of Tyre with part of the Bracles or Acre text Donald Richards ‘The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin being the a/-Nawadir. of Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad Janet Shirley and Peter Edbury iume de Machaut: The Capture of Alexandria Paul Crawford ‘The Templar of Tyre The Song of the Cathar Wars AHistory of the Albigensian Crusade WILLIAM OF TUDELA andan j ANONYMOUS SUCCESSOR translated by JANET SHIRLEY R Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORKFirst published 1996 by Ashgate Publishing Paperback edition published 2000 Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint ofthe Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Janet Shirley, 1996 er the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act is work. All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known o: hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers, Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or used only for identification and explanation without i British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data es—poeity. 1 Tite. IL Shirley, Janet 841'03'0901 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data tory ofthe Albigensian Crusade/ ‘of Tudela and an anonymous successor translated by Janet ip T Augustus, story—Pociry. 9612313 cP ISBN 13:978-0-7546-0388-7 (pbk) Contents List of maps and figures Introduction Bibliography ‘Acknowledgements The Song of the Cathar Wars by ‘The Song continued by William’s successor Chronotogy Index48 (Campaign against Raymond Roger, count of Folx Laisse 84 ‘The count de Montfort and most ofthe crusaders marched at daybreak to attack the count of Foix. Atthis point the count of Alos withdrew, as he had remained stay inthe district of Foix doing all the damage it could, devastati rm and arable cops, the amet that area when the ot weather nd, and the count de Montfort rode to Rocamadour. cof Citeaux was staying in the cloister at Cahors, and was afraid to ibtifhe would have come out ofit ill Easter ifthe count had not gone to Rocamadour. The abbot of Citeaux sta you, and the count de Montfort began his joumey,) Sayed 1 ‘begged and commanded for King John, who may have set him t help er Joan. 49 Count Raymond prepares an offensive Laisse 87 When Count Raymond heard that the count de Montfort had dismissed his forces,' he summoned his host from every comer of his fief and sent to tel all his supporters to prepare at once, May great lordsassembld th count of Comminges lord oft Gade he count of Foix and many other barons all met on a certain day. The seneschal of ‘Agen? who has charge of Penne, and all the mercenaries set off, as did the men of ‘Montauban, whom indeed I do not forget, and, may God bless me, of Castelsarrasin. ‘Ona Sunday moming as day was breaking they heard that Sir Savari was on his \way to join them. How delighted they all were -and how Tittle di they know what, the outcome would be! ‘Ah glorious God the Father, ah Mary, blessed Lady, did anyone ever sce an army so trong or so well equipped as that of Toulouse, or cavalry like theirs? Hereis the ‘wholehost of Milan, you would have said, here are the hosts of Rome and Lombardy and of Pavia too, when it was mustered out there on the plain. Count Raymond takes the field Laisse 88 Very great and marvellous, my lords, was the host of the count of Toulouse and ‘Toulouse was there and Moissac, Montauban and Castelsarrasin, whole Albigeois. Laisse 89 Great was the Toulousain army, God be my witness, when the French knights rode away from the Carcassés. In it were mercenaries from Navarre and from the Aspe valley more than a thousand mounted men and fifty and three; Gascons, men from Quercy and from Agen; banners raised, they rode for the LLauragais, not expecting to meet a living soul between there and the Biterrois. 1. Their forty days? duty done, the last German contingents had left for home from Rocamadour 2 Hughot Alfaro, 4. Vassals of the count of Fox from the most distant prt ofthe Cerdagne, & Between Oloron and the Somport pass.