#montsegur

[magicworldcompany]

Journey to March 16, 1244: The burning at the stake of Montségur and the Prat del Cremats or the end of the Cathar heresy

[illustratus]

The Siege of Montségur Fortress, 1244 by Sergey Lesnikov

[de-enige-echte-richard]

[templar1307]

Montségur, Ariège, France

23 February 2021

[clinging-to-the-bars]

i like iron maiden’s montségur a lot

[enanoakd]

Minimalism + Iron Maiden - “Dance of Death” (2003)

[catharcountry]

Château de Montségur, Ariege, Occitanie, France.

www.catharcountry.info

Montsegur - castle, pog and village - lies in the foothills of the Pyrenees, not far from Lavelanet. Montsegur II was a Cathar refuge besieged for ten months by three Catholic armies from May 1243, one army commanded by the Seneschal of Carcassonne, one by a bishop, and one by an archbishop.

When the castle fell in March 1244, some 225 Cathar prisoners were burned alive, without trial. A Garrison of around 200 sympathisers had defended them against the Catholic Crusader armies of 5,000 - 10,000 before they surrendered. A monument on the site reads:

IN THIS PLACE ON 16th MARCH 1244 MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE WERE BURNED. THEY WOULD NOT ABJURE THEIR FAITH

Places still available on the Spring tour of Cathar Castles: see http://www.catharcountry.info/Week.html

[didanawisgi]

“Field of the burned”: the monument at the Prat dels Cremats, near Montsegur, where 225 Cathars were burned alive in 1244.