Montségur is a castle in the foothills of the Pyrenees, not far from Lavelanet in the Ariege, France.
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Some 225 Cathars were burned alive at the Château de Montsegur in 1244 for the crime of not being Catholic. A Garrison of around 200 had defended them for 10 months against a French Crusader army of 5,000 - 10,000 before they surrendered. A monument on the site reads
EN CE LIEU LE 16 MARS 1244 PLUS DE 200 PERSONNES ONT ÉTÉ BRULÉES. ELLES N'AVAIENT PAS VOULU RENIER LEUR FOI.
IN THIS PLACE ON 16th MARCH 1244 MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE WERE BURNED. THEY WOULD NOT ABJURE THEIR FAITH
There were so many victims that a special wooden pen had to be constructed, filled with heaps of brushwood, to burn them. A clerical chronicler preened that they passed directly from the flames of this world to the flames on the next.