 | irishgit (138)
04/17/2008 | A nice piece of Papal sponsored savagry, primarily designed to loot the Albigensian treasuries and land holdings.
Religious differences were, as they often are, a convenient excuse.
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 | Enkidu (37)
02/17/2004 | Cheerled by Pope Innocent III, a rabble of rapacious crusaders under Simon de Montfort moved through southern France (Languedoc, the area around Toulouse), exterminating entire populations of heretics, effectively ending a vigorous civilization which easily could have provided Europe a Renaissance two hundred years earlier than it actually occurred.
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