For bonus points, the siege engine in question was supposedly operated by the women of the town. REKT
If you want to learn more about the Crsade against the Cathars and crusades in general, there is a great podcast on spotify called the History of Crusades by Sharyn Eastaugh. Highly recommend!
This is Simon IV de Montfort, not to be confused with his father Simon IV de Montfort about which we know little. Our de Montfort is therefore sometimes named Simon V de Montfort, but is not to be confused with his son Simon V de Montfort, who was hacked apart by royalists at Evesham.
…did someone forget how to count somewhere in this lineage?!
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
‘Venc tot dreit la peira lai on era mestiers’ it is said in Toulouse
-> ‘the rock hit just where it ought to’
-> ‘lmao eat shit French apologist’
He’s not really a role model around here.
-> ‘the rock hit just where it ought to’
Perfect, just like the shot
Montfort’s body was mutilated in a frenzy by the royalists. News reached the mayor and sheriffs of London that “the head of the earl of Leicester … was severed from his body, and his testicles cut off and hung on either side of his nose”
This illustration is of the previous Simon de Montfort - that one’s father. Bad luck would seem to run in the family.
The 6th Earl of Leicester was responsible for ethnic cleansing of English Jews, and his father depicted here had a key role in slaughtering the Cathars in Languedoc as you’ve mentioned in the title, so maybe what goes around comes around?
Damn! I was actually gonna ask about that because the wikipedia said he died by getting stabbed in the neck. Bad luck is right.
