The Albigensian Crusade - Full Documentary

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[@nihilistic7840]

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[@andreas3850]

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[@RealCrusadesHistory]

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[@RealCrusadesHistory]

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[@nihilistic7840]

@@RealCrusadesHistory Amazon 5 star review already submitted

[@simonrisley2177]

I read Mediæval history; and this was one of my subjects. For a 30 minute documentary, this is one of the best that I've seen. Congratulations! 🤗

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Danaluni59]

Excellent dissemination of this complex and often misrepresented historical event. Bravo!

[@onefeather2]

Well said.

[@risingwindspress]

So Catharism in Southern France was like Mormonism in Utah?

[@Grim_Azrael]

Hmm I'm not sure you can compare them to be honest.

[@walnzell9328]

Seeing as how the Cathars believed that marriage and sex was a trap, definitely no.

[@ludonymous526]

Nope. Cathars hated sex as well as children, with some of them even killing infants in horrific fashion.

[@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722]

​@@ludonymous526 Surces?

[@ludonymous526]

@@gabrielalejandrodoldan4722 Well. Look it up yourself.

[@occitanedeprovence]

The Albigensian Crusade is the beginning of the French invasion of Occitania

[@sawbludoh6566]

Uh nope. For the most part the French monarch allow the occitanian to practice their own custom.

[@PJTheSimple]

The French invasion of France

[@thibskywalker4450]

At this Time, the confrontation between Northern French against Occitans (Current Southern French) was like a War between England and Scotland in current Britain.

[@occitanedeprovence]

@@thibskywalker4450 Yes.

[@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong6536]

Le roi de France n'a fait que ce faire obéir de ces vassaux occitans

[@Jinseual]

You've managed to keep a 30+ minute long documentary interesting to the very end.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

That's good to know.

[@jhewes.5923]

You not got a long attention span mate?

[@johnnyhempseed84]

I love your videos. Great music and I love the mellow atmospheric tone of your videos Feels nostalgic for no reason at all.

[@superchickeny7]

I remember 30k I’m soo glad your amazing documentary’s are getting 200k worth recognition

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thanks! I appreciate that!

[@TheRealLifeRobert]

The only channel worth my time.

[@Cory_Dora]

Simple and easy to understand. Thank you for this video. Well done!

[@josemarieconpajaron5741]

Wow, this is a great documentary! Deep and well-researched, sophisticatedly fair and compassionate, well thought-out and objective throughout, and presented clearly and interestingly still! Thanks for this.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fiddleback1568]

The fact that they killed Papal Legats. Is all you need to know about them.

[@kilowhiskeyalpha6078]

They were inquisitors, men who inflicted pain and humiliation.

[@filopon7116]

​@@kilowhiskeyalpha6078no

[@nikkonstantik2980]

@@kilowhiskeyalpha6078and they were heretics so...

[@morenojames5868]

FANTASTIC as always, mate! Never stop with these.

[@TheRealLifeRobert]

Everyone gangsta until the Pope gets involve

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@LuisAldamiz Yeah you cannot do that.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@LuisAldamiz What has that got to do with having the Authority to excommunicate someone?

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@LuisAldamiz When using this comments page you need to be Coherent. Do it.

[@joshportie]

This was a genocide of pre reformation protestants. And more proof of the truth in protestantism. They even murdered the Catholics there.

[@HJabroni]

@@joshportie Dude... Protestantism's foundation was built on a different interpretation of specific verses, and none of which is supported by the Old Testament, which is where the Catholic doctrine comes out of. The "Genocide" and anything else the Church did wrong doesn't mean anything, you don't stop believing in medicine if a Doctor uses it to murder his patients. You just simply don't do what that specific doctor does

[@SpiritOfTheRainbow]

Part 4: Masterful and nuanced overview, thanks.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thank you!

[@ArayStrak]

The first time I learned about the Cathars was through a novel called The Treasure of Montségur, by Sophie Burnham. Fiction, but the writer definitely did her homework. If you want to experience how it feels to live during this time, I recommend you delve into a good book like this.

[@anamariawallace340]

Thanks for the tip. Was looking for a good book on this subject.

[@edgarkrattiger9185]

hmm...I have bether books from Maurice Magre ....I don't know if translated in english..or..Belibaste the last of the Cathars..written in french..

[@jackuber7358]

The Cathars were nothing more than warmed over gnostics.

[@-.George.]

No

[@ludonymous526]

Nope. They were just Gnostics operating in Languedoc.

[@mistermaxr]

I really like your channel and your videos. One comment about this one: it should address the magnitude of loss of life directly.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Thanks for sharing

[@QeepingItReal]

Interesting : keep up the good work

[@arianegravenor7453]

Thank you for a very concise history of a turbulent period. Interesting that Saint Dominic's role in the demise of the Cathar heresy was not mentioned.

[@arth_steps]

Most people forget or don't know about this fact, so they go "noooo bad pope, war bad"

[@edgarkrattiger9185]

Dominic died before this catastrophical crusade started..

[@remilenoir1271]

​@@edgarkrattiger9185 Catastrophic ? I reckon it was pretty successful judging the current state of Catharism in southern France. . . . (Spoiler alert : It's inexistant).

[@DaviRenania]

​@@remilenoir1271Actually, catharism just went undercover into trobadorism and Dolce Stil Nuovo. And is the earliest ancestor to what we know as Communism and Fascism.

[@-.George.]

@@DaviRenania No

[@Bigtunaproductions09]

Awesome

[@Viktor-to2fr]

J Stephen, you must release these background soundtracks, they are really good, without vocals. Really like the first two songs in this video 👍🏻

[@mellocello]

Your channel gives KZbin a reason to exist.

[@fullfist]

DEATH OF SIMON DE MONTFORT (Warrior-Hero-Crusader): ...until in 1217 a rebellion broke out in Provence, where Count Raymond's son re-entered Toulouse. Simon hastened to besiege the city, but was hampered by lack of troops. On 25 June, 1218, while he was at Mass he learned that the besieged had made a sortie. Refusing to leave the church before Mass was over, he arrived late at the scene of action only to be wounded mortally. He expired, commending his soul to God, and was buried in the Monastery of Haute-Bruyère. He left three sons, of whom Almeric the eldest ultimately inherited his French estates; the youngest was Simon de Montfort, who succeeded him as Earl of Leicester, and who was to play so great a part in English history. -- Cath. Encyclopedia

[@livestreamsrecordingsuk4529]

Hero Simon de Montfort "never " he and some predecessors beingb mercenaries they murdered Cathars all over Europe including in Oxford England which is hidden history they even tried to claim Cathar religious paintings in England as some Catholic paintings they have no shame .

[@gsalien2292]

Good stuff, man! Concise and highly informative!

[@ikkedansk]

good to hear about crusades other than the usual holy lands

[@creakychair9387]

Or pagan lands.

[@earlnovero8208]

Hello I'm just watch king and generals about early reformation can you make a video about reformation before luther?

[@Raisonnance.]

My city. I live in Albi.

[@AK-hi7mg]

Nice .how is the job market down there ?

[@gregmita]

Good documentary, but I think you mean Cathar "prefects" rather than "perfects"?

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

No, I mean Perfect. They were known as perfectus, "Perfects."

[@gregmita]

@@RealCrusadesHistory You are right sir. Sorry about that. :)

[@vercingetorix2923]

Fun fact: In German the word "Ketzer" is still used as a synonym for heretic.

[@etherealcatholic5711]

Are you on DLive or Bitchute possibly?

[@gorillabiskut]

Should use/add ‘The Albigensian Crusade’ by Joseph Strayer. He was a great historian

[@yorkshire2984]

Does anyone know the name of the castle at 17:56? Wonderful video, keep them coming :)

[@vedun9439]

Montsegur, i find it strange that there was no mention of it in the video, it was kind of a big deal in during the crusade. After the siege of the castle aprox. 200 Cathar priests were burned at the pyre

[@yorkshire2984]

@@vedun9439 Thank you so much!

[@jb8826]

Montsegur is beautiful you should visit it if you get the chance.

[@pablojablo6371]

I've actually stayed there for a night on my own. It'sca hard experience to describe and I didn't sleep much as my mind was racing.

[@robertplatt643]

"What led to such asceticism and physical denial in the Languedoc region?" ....it sure wasn't the beaches.

[@conlaiarla]

It was prosperous. As we see today transgenderism etc when a society has too much comfort the insane and irrational comes to fill the void of time previously spent on surviving.

[@remilenoir1271]

​@conlaiarla Exactly. You can even see that in the views Northern and Southern France locals held about each others at the time. The Northerners thought of the Southerners as lazy, promiscuous, undisciplined, and easily tricked, which behaviour they attributed mostly to the prosperity and luxury of their lives. Catharism was the unfortunate overreaction to a pre-decadent society, and the normal people, as usual, got trapped between these two extremes and the misery they brought on themselves.

[@jimmyrustles9036]

21:55 Name of church?

[@ludonymous526]

Even I, a Catholic that views Gnosticism with a lot of contempt, find this Crusade to be absolutely horrifying.

[@SpiritOfTheRainbow]

Parts 2 & 3: Thanks for a masterful explanation of the complex detail of the Crusade itself. It is said that those operating the mangonel were women. If true, it can be said to represent a certain kind of poetic justice, given the northern French and Catholic Church's attitude to women, in contrast to the Languedoc and in particular Cathar view.

[@cookedchicken7913]

How many fatalities in total were there in the Albigensian Crusade?

[@ludonymous526]

Between 200,000 to 1,000,000. It was a genocide.

[@josephahner3031]

​@@ludonymous526 Were there even that many people in the Languedoc at the time?

[@ludonymous526]

@@josephahner3031 Well. Still, it was a lot of casualties.

[@tauceti8341]

This is what makes me a bit mad is that they couldn't wait until after the war in the holy lands to address the heretical issues. This is exactly why the Byz collapsed because of heretical revolts and the like. Oh well, all of these people's decisions allowed me to be here today.

[@grimgoreironhide9985]

The Byzantines collapsed because the Crusaders sacked their capital and economic well being.

[@ivanthemadvandal8435]

@@grimgoreironhide9985 Nope, the main reason for their fall was their own internal instability, it was an exiled emperor who manipulated the rogue 4th crusade into sacking Constantinople against the Pope's wishes

[@Dilley_G45]

​@@ivanthemadvandal8435what about the role of Venice?

[@remilenoir1271]

If they had waited, the Cathar sickness would've spread just like the Protestant Reformation. The Cathar issue was far more pressing than retaking Jerusalem and the Levant, it was happening in the heart of Christendom, not thousands of miles overseas. Fortunately, the Church understood that and took action quickly.

[@remilenoir1271]

​@grimgoreironhide9985 Have you ever wondered how few thousands of disbanded Franks and Venetians "crusaders" were able to easily topple the second most powerful city on Earth ? If not, then you might be interested in getting informed about the sorry state of the Byzantine Empire by 1204, instead of jumping to childish conclusion.

[@walnzell9328]

Cathars: Matter is evil. We must break away from our mortal vessels to be truly free. Catholic Church: I got you, homie!

[@ludonymous526]

That one was basically the Albigensian Crusade in a nutshell.

[@josephahner3031]

The main disagreement on this crusade is between those who know what Gnosticism is and what it eventually became, and those who don't.

[@chadsknnr]

Fascinating belief system, tragic story . . . .

[@an7440]

Don’t call everything fascinating … when evil becomes fascinating, that’s dangerous … prob what eve thought too

[@chadsknnr]

@@an7440 Why is it evil?

[@an7440]

@@chadsknnr just read about albigensians

[@chadsknnr]

@@an7440 I already know about the Cathars AND I watched the video. You'll have to do better than that. I ask that you be specific . . . .

[@an7440]

Now u tell me what is so fascinating about them

[@cerberus8666]

I was reading "Knights of the Cloister", the orders really liked this region -any opinion on that? They seemed to have at least twice as many "institutions" there. I liked reading the Occitanian language, such energy, I wonder what it sounded like back then.

[@Poetessa2]

Occitan was (and still is) the language of love, the language the Troubadours and their female counterparts Trobairitz sang and spoke their beautiful poetry. It is still spoken today by many of the older generations and those who vowed to keep it alive. It is the most beautiful language I've ever heard. If you hear the song Le Bouvier it is a great example of the language and the Cathars. It makes me cry every time I hear it.

[@shinyshinythings]

@@Poetessa2 I’ve never heard of female troubadours before! What a cool factoid.

[@Poetessa2]

@@shinyshinythings Yessss!! I just love that too!!

[@bookwormaddict3933]

I made a comment regarding this subject on Doug Tenapel's livestream and some Jerome deleted it. Hypocrites.

[@jamesbhollingsworth5452]

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

[@ludonymous526]

Yeah. But still, a lot of blood was spilled.

[@yungfiend6830]

15:39 Toulouse technically wasn’t in Pedro II of Aragon’s kingdom or control but he did have the right to reign over Toulouse same as the Phillipe II of Francia has the rights of being king over Toulouse. Both kings of Aragon and Francia were competing for control in Toulouse and southern France. As both of them had the rights to rule the lands. Your videos are well detailed though, no hate just thought it was an important detail. A monarchy’s power only worked when they could control their nobles which they rarely could.

[@SamuelHallEngland]

Good to hear both sides of the story.

[@onuscronus984]

👍

[@dietadeworms]

Why didn't you talk about the Cathar's Endura?

[@eddierivera1860]

St. Dominic

[@Blackout0O0]

Kathaarian Life Code by DARKTHRONE

[@GreasusGoldtooth]

The Cathar Wars really were a terrible tragedy.

[@ludonymous526]

Yeah. Even I, who doesn't like Gnosticism, find this atrocity to be absolutely horrific. No wonder the Catholic Church required that Reformation led by Martin Luther years later.

[@0r14n583lt]

Are not the Cathars just later day Manicheists?

[@TheSunderingSea]

Manichiesm did not use God, especially not an Abrahamic concept of God as its proxy, rather they referred to "forces" of light and darkness in battle with each other. The Bogomils and their Cathar successors believed that Christ was the "good god" whereas God in the Old Testement was the "evil" material god rather then Christian teachings of the Trinity.

[@Mika-El-]

@@TheSunderingSea They did not believe Christ was God. The also has esoteric roots to the Essenes and Knights Templars.

[@knghtcmdr]

@@Mika-El- The Knights Templar were devout Catholics, not Cathar heretics.

[@Mika-El-]

@@knghtcmdr They had contact. Ask Templars of today.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

@@Mika-El- no those were likely made up by the French King who owed the Templars money, there is very little if zero evidence that the Cathars had any connection with the Templars. Also why would the Cathars a group who openly despised the Catholics join a Crusade for them. (I though you as a Cathar would see this.)

[@Glider34]

Seems like one long hangover.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

It's a sad story, really.

[@johnraymond-pz9bo]

Eggs and meat forbidden? Forget it

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

That alone would make it a no for me!

[@ludonymous526]

​@@RealCrusadesHistory Indeed. Buddhists hold similar beliefs, but they're an entirely different thing.

[@albusai]

They were gnostics then

[@ludonymous526]

They were. And they were gruesomely massacred.

[@thinzki44]

This is why Waldensian also persecuted because they have a link of Catharism and also produces error in interpreting the bible they even hired a priest to read and translate bible passages.

[@jeffdive9457]

You didnt consider killing as mortal sins. Is that Christianity? Even our country suffer in the hand of Roman Catholic. How they kill our heroes. Thou shalt not kill, but they kill millions hypocrisy

[@nomore9004]

@@jeffdive9457 No killing is not a sin murder is.

[@jeffdive9457]

@@nomore9004 killing is not a sin to you. Even Christ didn't do that. Did you remember the harlot that was brought in the front of Him. If you were found harlot you will be stoned to death. So He said whoever have no sin will cast the stoned first. Christianity is love and hope people Church have no right to judged people to death.

[@franciscoscaramanga9396]

The Waldensians were proto-Protestants, as were the Albigensians. The Waldensians survived long enough to not have their records burned and their character maligned by the Antichrist of the Catholic Pope. Morlund lives on, as does the Reformation. The churches of Piedmont will have a place in history.

[@nowhereman6019]

@@nomore9004 Christ would be ashamed of you and all like you.

[@jujujudio]

The crusade proved the Cathars beliefs to be true.

[@ludonymous526]

Well. Their beliefs were the very opposite of God's Word, and by claiming themselves to be "True" Christians, they were actually perverting Jesus Christ's teachings. Still, this Crusade was WAY too overblown for how it turned out.

[@seandineen999]

Pope Innocent III ,my patron saint

[@Xepent]

What

[@seandineen999]

@@Xepent i took the name innocent when i was confirmed.

[@Xepent]

@@seandineen999 wtf is confirmed all you need is jesus

[@seandineen999]

@@Xepent and I have Him.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Your true name is thus Guilty, as he was of horrible crimes against Humankind (and thus against Divninity).

[@Carltoncurtis1]

Cathars: the first nihilists.

[@Mika-El-]

No, not at all. 180 degree misunderstood.

[@htoodoh5770]

@@Mika-El- What is cathar?

[@Mika-El-]

@@htoodoh5770 A cathar is a person who lived and embodied a branch of esoteric christianity that quite a few esoteric scholars consider to be closer to the original christian faith than catholic and protestant churches in general. Exceptions can always be made.

[@htoodoh5770]

@I'm Right What do Cathar believe?

[@PanSzawu]

Correct. Only fools would think material is inherently evil.

[@user-kx2fc2mw5v]

Probably the most tragic, but also the most needed Crusade. Without it the spread of Catharism might have had catastrophic consequences on European civilization.

[@etherealcatholic5711]

Agree.

[@etherealcatholic5711]

Evolution of the Shakers seem to suggest Catharism could've spread within Europe.

[@Cory_Dora]

You mean like Martin Luther? Those people should have been left alone to worship as they saw fit.

[@mungox1]

spoken as a true Roman Catholic.

[@Zhicano]

It was not the most needed. It was completely unnecessary to persecute people of different beliefs. Also the French crusaders used the assassination as the final excuse for them to convince the pope to call a crusade to “legally” seize property and wealth. The Self important Catholic Church did not like the idea of competing religious beliefs as it undermines their control and oppression of the people.

[@StSylvester]

Glad the Dominicans dealt with the Cathar heresy.

[@donthasselthehoff5753]

You're happy that they murdered thousands of innocents? Christ you're messed in the head.

[@ludonymous526]

Are you nuts, man?

[@swiftcee266]

God bless the Cathars

[@lucascesar029]

No

[@swiftcee266]

@@lucascesar029 Simpleton

[@conlaiarla]

Apparently He did not 😂

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

god bless people who think reproducing is sin..? lol

[@pdub69triniboy]

Soud like a ture Protestant 😢

[@boldandbrash8431]

This one was unjustified

[@alexabood2516]

That’s an understatement haha

[@nomore9004]

This was justified

[@alexabood2516]

@@nomore9004 the bait is strong with this one

[@lucascesar029]

Cathars killed pregnant woman because they thought they were evil for brining people into the world, it was more than justified

[@ludonymous526]

Well. Cathars were crazy fellas, but this Crusade was one step too far.

[@lilo7741]

perhaps the biggest moral mistake in all of crusade's history. number two ranks the fourth crusade for me.

[@Botoburst]

This was a dangerous cult though, no sex? Basically a death cult.

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

not mistake at all for 4th crusade since it wasnt a crusade and they were excommunicated

[@lilo7741]

@@bruhmcchaddeus413 it was a crusade gone wrong. they wanted to go to egypt but the sentiment tipped and christian cities were sacked under nitpicked religious/economic pretexts.

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

@@lilo7741 Venitians still had hate in them because byzantine massacred latins in 1182 and betrayed richard at cyprus 1189, They used this hate to fuel their reasons and sacked Constantinople. They were ex communicated by pope moment they stepped foot on ships tho, so it was never really a crusade.