Yet it is also certain that he, the chief of the sectarians, and a great number of the nobility of Southern France, were led to embrace the Albigensian error by the degrading habits which they had previously contracted.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
There was no need of a second Albigensian war to put it down.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
The energy of Innocent the Third, the zeal of the young orders of Francis and Dominic, and the ferocity of the Crusaders whom the priesthood let loose on an unwarlike population, crushed the Albigensian churches.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay