Hérault department in the Occitanie region. Every August Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, which is centred on bullfighting. A million visitors...

3.2190°E / 43.3476; 3.2190 The Massacre at Béziers occurred on 22 July 1209 during the sack of Béziers by crusaders. It was the first major military...

November 1209) was a member of the noble Trencavel family. He was viscount of Béziers and Albi (and thus a vassal of the count of Toulouse), and viscount of...

also Viscount of Albi, Béziers and Carcassonne from 1213, as well as Count of Toulouse from 1215. He was the son of Simon de Montfort (d. 1188), lord...

traversed the 45 miles between Béziers and Carcassonne in six days, arriving in the city on 1 August 1209. The siege did not last long. By 7 August,...

Raymond I Trencavel (also Raimond) (died 1167) was the Viscount of Agde and Béziers from 1130 and Viscount of Albi, Carcassonne, and Razès from 1150. He was...

forces of Pierre Roger de Mirepoix, who protected a community of Cathars in Montségur. The castle surrendered after a nine-month siege. About 210 perfecti...

excommunication. This was followed by the capture and massacre of Béziers, the siege and capture of Carcassonne, and the death of Raymond Roger Trencavel...

remained in place. Bernard Aton IV Trencavel, vicomte of Albi, Nîmes, and Béziers, introduced a period of prosperity for the city with numerous construction...

their leader, Simon IV de Montfort. In 1211 Simon IV de Montfort conducted his first siege of Toulouse, one that featured no siege engines and is widely...

called contessa de Burlatz (Countess of Burlats) in the vida of Arnaut de Mareuil. She was married to Roger II Trencavel, count of Béziers and Carcassonne...

INSEE "Hotel de Ville de Montpellier". Ducks. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Cougnenc, Rémy. "L'université de Montpellier à l'épreuve de la fusion – Journal...

was a Francesco Bonsi who died at the siege of Amiens (1597). Thomas I de Bonsi [fr] served as bishop of Béziers from 1576 to 1596. Thereafter, the bishopric...

the siege of Jerusalem. Arved Tudebode, a relative of Peter Tudebone, who was killed at the siege of Antioch Bernard Ato IV, Viscount of Béziers and Carcassonne...

con Béziers y El Astillero" (in Spanish). Diario de Cádiz. 16 June 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2023. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chiclana de la...

"[citation needed] After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers in 1209, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of...

the Albigensian Crusade. It is reported that prior to the massacre of Béziers, Amalric, when asked how to distinguish Cathars from Catholics, responded...

abandoned the Cabaret castles, but was granted lands near Beziérs in return. Dominique Paladilhe, Simon de Montfort, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1988 (réimpr...

automatically inherited the viscounties of Béziers, Carcassonne, Albi, and Razès, but Carcassonne was granted to Simon de Montfort immediately after Raymond Roger's...

around Béziers for the purpose of frustrating the royalist lieutenant-general Joyeuse. In early 1563 settlements continued to be captured around Béziers by...

1714; "Lettre IV. A bord de "Furieux" à la rade de Barcelonne le 2 août 1714"; transcribed by Jean Audouard in Le Siège de Barcelone in 1714, raconté...

the initial campaign of the Albigensian Crusade and fought at the siege of Béziers then Carcassonne. His abilities attracted the king's attention who...

The siege of Avignon was the principal military action of the Albigensian Crusade of 1226. King Louis VIII of France besieged the town of Avignon, which...

Montpellier Mâcon Le Mans Nîmes Pau Agen Orange Vienne Romans Le Puy Montauban Béziers Bergerac In response to Condé's manifesto, Protestants rose up and seized...

who had led troops during the Massacre at Béziers, was replaced as commander of the Crusader force by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, although...

great-niece, Philippa, Countess of Poitou, and Bernard-Aton, Vicomte of Béziers. Arnulf's influence at Foulques's court appears to be evidenced by particular...

Massacre at Béziers: The Crusader army, led by Simon de Monfort, arrives in the Languedoc area, and makes camp at Béziers, to start a siege. The citizens...

illustrious Anne de Girard de Coulondres, a descendant of the state councillors of Béziers (16th century) and, earlier, of Girard de Bazoges, ambassador...

requested the elevation of the bishop of Saint-Papoul and the bishop of Béziers to the cardinalate. Finally he arrived in Rome at the end of July. His...

Simon de Montfort from avenging his death. Baldwin had married Alix, daughter and heiress of Sicard V, Viscount de Lautrec and Adélaïde de Béziers. Traditionally...