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Cathar castles (in French Châteaux cathares) is a modern term used by the tourism industry (following the example of Pays Cathare - Cathar Country) to arbitrarily designate the series of fortresses built by the French king on the southern frontier of his lands at the end of the Albigensian Crusade. Some of these sites had known, before the Royal period, fortified villages capable of sheltering Cathars and which were destroyed during the building of citadels. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1457 KB) Chateau de Queribus - France - Pyrénées-orientales (66) Source: Taken by the user File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Château de Qu...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1457 KB) Chateau de Queribus - France - Pyrénées-orientales (66) Source: Taken by the user File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Château de Qu...
The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209 - 1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the heresy of the Cathars of Languedoc. ...
Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209. ...
The true "Cathar castles"
In Languedoc, the only real "Cathar castles" were fortified homesteads (castrum), such as Laurac, Fanjeaux, Mas-Saintes-Puelles. Certain sites like Lastours-Cabaret, Montségur, Termes ou Puilaurens were castra before being razed to the ground and becoming royal citadels. The legend of Cathar architects and builders is no more than a myth. The only monuments which witnessed the events of the first half of the 13th century, and therefore the only ones which can claim the description "Cathar", given that the Cathar Church never built anything, are the small castles, often totally unknown to the public, whose meagre ruins are away from the tourist routes. For the language called Langue doc, see Occitan language. ...
Fanjeaux is a village and commune west of Carcassonne, in the French département of Aude, a part of the ancient Languedoc province and the present-day Languedoc-Rousillon region. ...
Châteaux de Lastours from a rampart of the château de Querthineux The Châteaux de Lastours (in Occitan Lastors) are four so-called Cathar castles in the French commune of Lastours in the département of lAude. ...
The Fortress of Montségur June 22, 1987. ...
Termes is the name or part of the name of several places Termes, in a village, part of the commune of Chiny, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg Termes is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Termes, in the Ardennes département Termes, in...
Puilaurens castle One of the Cathar Castles of what is now the South of France. ...
The royal citadels Following the failure of the attempt to recapture Carcassonne by Raimond II, Viscount Trencaval in 1240, the Cité de Carcassonne was considerably reinforced by the French king, new master of the territory. He flattened small castra in the Corbières region and built citadels to protect the frontier with the kingdom of Aragon. For other uses, see Carcassonne (disambiguation). ...
The Trencavel were an important noble family in Languedoc (in the southwest of modern-day France) during the 10th through 13th centuries. ...
Capital Zaragoza Official language(s) Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 4th 47,719 km² 9. ...
These five castles are often called the cinq fils de Carcassonne (five sons of Carcassonne):
These five fortresses resisted various assaults led by the Aragonese army. The Château dAguilar is a 12th century Cathar castle located in the commune of Tuchan in the Aude département of France. ...
Peyrepertuse Castle Peyrepertuse is a ruined fortress located high in the French Pyrénées in the Aude département, and has been associated with the Counts of Narbonne and Barcelona. ...
Puilaurens castle One of the Cathar Castles of what is now the South of France. ...
The Château de Quéribus The Château de Quéribus (in Occitan Castèl de Querbús) is a ruined castle in the South of France. ...
The Château de Termes is a ruined castle near the village of Termes in the Aude département of France. ...
The abandonment of the citadels In 1659, Louis XIV and the Philip IV of Spain signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, sealed with the marriage of the Infanta Marie Therese to the French King. The treaty modified the frontiers, giving Rousillon to France and moving the frontier south to the crest of the Pyrenees, the present Franco-Spanish border. The fortresses thus lost their importance. Some maintained a garrison for a while, a few until the French Revolution, but they slowly fell into decay, often becoming sherpherds' shelters or bandits hideouts. Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ...
Philip IV (), (April 8, 1605 – September 17, 1665) was King of Spain from 1621 to 1665 and also King of Portugal until 1640. ...
The Treaty of the Pyrenees was a treaty signed in 1659 to end the war between France and Spain that had begun in 1635 during the Thirty Years War. ...
In the Spanish and former Portuguese monarchies, Infante (masc. ...
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Mount Canigou (2785m), a Catalan landmark Roussillon (Catalan Rosselló; Spanish Rosellón) is one of the historical Catalan Countries corresponding roughly to the present-day southern French département of Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees). ...
The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on...
Other "Cathar castles" - Château d’Arques
- Château de Durfort
- Châteaux de Lastours
- Château de Montségur
- Château de Padern
- Château de Pieusse
- Château de Puivert
- Rennes-le-Château
- Château de Roquefixade
- Château de Saissac
- Château d'Usson
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Châteaux de Lastours from a rampart of the château de Querthineux The Châteaux de Lastours (in Occitan Lastors) are four so-called Cathar castles in the French commune of Lastours in the département of lAude. ...
The Fortress of Montségur June 22, 1987. ...
Château de Pieusse The Château de Pieusse is a one of the so-called Cathar castles in the French commune of Pieusse, near the town of Limoux in the département of lAude. ...
Mountain panorama, seen from the keep terrace The Château de Puivert is a so-called Cathar castle situated in the commune of Puivert, in the Aude département of France. ...
Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in occitan) is a small medieval castle village and a commune in the Aude département, in the Languedoc area in southern France. ...
The Château de Roquefixade is a ruined castle built on a cliff overlooking the village of Roquefixade, situated 8km (5 miles) west of Lavelanet French département of Ariège. ...
The Château de Saissac in front of the plain of Carcassonne The Château de Saissac is a ruined Cathar castle in the southernmost tip of the commune of Saissac in the Aude département in the north-west of Carcassonne, France. ...
The château dUsson is one of the Cathar castles in what is now southwestern France. ...
See also List of castles in France This is a list of castles in France, arranged by Region and Department. ...
Sources and further reading AUÉ, Michèle; (trans. Pleasance, Simon) (1992). Discover Cathar Country. Vic-en-Bigorre, France: MSM. ISBN 2-907899-44-9. - This article was initially translated from this Wikipedia article Châteaux cathares, specifically from this version.
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