County of Foix coat of arms The independent counts of Foix, with their castle overlooking the town of Foix, now in southernmost France, governed their county of Foix, which corresponded roughly to the eastern part of the modern département of Ariège (the western part being Couserans). ...
Pamiers is the seat of a bishopric dating from the end of the I3th century.
Pamiers was originally a castle built in the beginning of the 12th century by Roger II., count of Foix, on lands belonging to the abbey of St Antonin de Frdelas.
Pamiers was sacked by Jean de Foix In 1486, again during the religious wars, when the abbey of St Antonin was destroyed, and finally, in 1628, by Henry II.
Further, Saisset was sent in 1301 as papal legate to Philip IV to protest the king's anticlerical measures.
But on his return to Pamiers he was denounced to the king as having tried to raise a rebellion of Occitan independence, associated with Navarre, under the banner of the Count of Foix (with whom Saisset had until very recently been embroiled in the courts).
Boniface VIII, detaching the city of Pamiers from the diocese of Toulouse in 1295, made it the seat of a new bishopric and raised the faithful Saisset to the new see.
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