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French leader of the Albigensian Crusade declared by Pope Innocent III a g a i n s t the Cathari, an unorthodox religious group in southern France.
"In 1190 Montfort married Alice de Montmorency (died 1221). During the F o u r t h C rusade (1202-04) he participated in the siege of Zara and later f o u g h t i n Syria. Beginning in 1209 he led the fight against the Ca thari ( b e t t e r known as Albigenses after the town of Albi) in a crusade that qu i c k l y b ecame a war of conquest by the northern French against the nobil i t y o f t h e south. Having conquered Baziers and Carcassonne, he was chos e n t o g o v ern those lands. When most of the crusaders departed after the 4 0 - d a y t erm they had promised to serve, he was left with large territori e s s t i l l to conquer. After he had won the important Battle of Muret in 1 2 1 3 , t h e lands of Raymond VI, count of Toulouse, were adjudged to Montf o r t b y t h e fourth Lateran Council (1215) because of Raymond's failure t o r o o t o u t heretics. He now styled himself count of Toulouse, viscount o f B a z i e rs and Carcassonne, and duke of Narbonne,but Raymond did not acc ep t d e f e at. He occupied Toulouse in September 1217. Montfort was killed w h i l e b e sieging the city. His son Amaury (died 1241) soon abandoned the c r u s a d e and ceded the Montfort lands in southern France to King Louis VI I I . " [ E ncyclop‘dia Britannica CD '97]
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Abt 1170 - 1218 (48 years)