Sixty Persons Called Albigenses

In the year 1211, or a little before, when the count of Montfort, by order of the pope, was exercising great tyranny in order to exterminate the Albigenses, he learned, through an informer or in some other way, that in a place called Casser there lived many of these people, under the protection of the lord of that place. He therefore went and laid siege to it; but those inside (namely, the garrison), seeing that they would not be able to hold out long, even though the place was otherwise fairly strong, surrendered on this agreement: that they would deliver into the hands of the enemy those called heretics (or Albigenses). The bishops tried to persuade them to renounce their faith, but they could not move them in the least; and because of this, sixty persons were burned for the sake of that religion. Chris. Hist., Albig., book 3, compared with A. M. Hist., folio 456, column 4. [n429-1]