The Friar of Carcassonne

by Stephen O'Shea

  and inquisition, 56–60, 59, 95–96, 97–98

  and Languedoc, 116, 139, 145–55, 249–251n

  and Nogaret, 110

  recruits for crushing heretics, 27–28

  and Senlis, 92

  and Templars, 23–24

  Philip IV, king of France, and Bernard

  audience in Senlis, 93–96, 97, 98

  audience in Toulouse, 148–53, 155

  Bernard’s faux pas in Toulouse, 146

  events at time of audience in Senlis, 32–34, 89–91

  and king’s visit to Clement V, 172

  pardon of Bernard, 173, 193, 255n

  Philip V, king of France, 200–201

  Picquigny, Jean de

  and accord signed by Carcassonne and the Church, 118–19

  and audience in Senlis, 90–91, 92, 94–95, 96–97, 240n

  and audience in Toulouse, 146–48

  and Bernard, 88–91, 117, 191

  biographical info, xix

  and Carcassonne in revolt, 129–30

  as Enquêteur-–réformateur, 87–91

  excommunication of, 136, 137–38, 147, 248n

  and Flanders, 239n

  the Wall and, 130–33

  Ponte St. Angelo, 11–12, 20–21, 116–17, 215n

  Pont Vieux, Carcassonne, 37

  poverty

  of Franciscans, 176

  and Olivi’s influence on Spirituals, 68

  opulence of the Church vs., 16–17, 174–76, 184, 217n, 256n

  and welfare of individual before

  God, 174

  See also laity

  prisoners from Albi

  Bernard as advocate for, 89

  and Castanet’s avaricious behavior, 75–77, 85, 238n

  Queen Joan’s visit, 154

  return to the Wall from the Cité, 191

  royal custody in the Cité, 132–34

  wives of, 77, 88, 103–4, 170

  Pros, Peire, xxi, 76, 153

  Purgatorio (Dante), 33

  Purgatory, threat of, 40

  Rabaud, Guillaume, 124–25, 244n

  Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, 38, 226n

  regime principum, De (Giles of Rome), 27

  registers. See inquisition registers

  “Reticence of Lady Anne, The” (Saki), 213n

  Roman Church. See Church, the

  Rome and Jubilee (1300), 11–14, 20, 22, 33–34, 116–17, 216n. See also Church, the; papacy

  Roquefort, Bernard-Raymond de, 125, 246n

  Sacconi, Raynier, 53

  Saint-Jean-–Pla-de-–Corts,

  Kingdom of

  Majorca, 158, 159–61, 193–94, 252n

  Saint-–Thibéry, Etienne de, 55, 235n

  Saisset, Bernard, xvi, 31–32, 86–91, 94, 104

  Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), 213n

  secession attempt, 156–61, 169–71, 193–94, 254n

  sedition charges against Barnard, 193–94

  Senlis, 91, 92–98, 103–4

  sermo generalis of inquisitors, 48, 49, 54, 76, 233n

  sermon of 1303, 120–22, 181, 244n

  sex

  Castanet’s debauchery, 93

  Castanet’s rules on, 74–75, 237n

  Foulques as rapist, 96

  Sicre, Gui, xviii, 115, 118–19

  Spanish Inquisition, 205

  Spiritual Franciscans

  Bernard as, 5–6, 178–79, 193, 237n, 258n

  and divide within the Franciscans, 176–78

  as heretics, 187–88, 193, 258n

  overview, 68–69

  as targets of inquisition, 178–80

  Ste. Cécile Cathedral, 73–74

  St. Félix, Cathar conclave in, 28

  St. Sernin, Toulouse, 143

  Tarragona, Council of, 43, 79–80, 229n

  terminology and names, xiii–xiv

  terror

  burning people alive, 23, 37–38, 49–50, 55, 233n

  disinternment and burning after death, 47, 54, 79

  of Purgatory and Hell, 40

  torture

  of Cathars before burning at the stake, 50

  techniques for avoiding, 44

  of Knights Templar, 23–24

  overview, 4

  papal approval of, 46–47, 53, 232n

  of penance after confession and sentencing, 48–49

  Philip IV on Foulques’ use of, 97

  at prison in Albi, 74

  at the Wall, 56–57, 135–36

  Toulouse

  Dominican university in, 38, 226–227n

  expulsion of Dominicans, 54

  Musée de Augustins, 1–2

  overview, 143–45, 249n

  and Pamiers, 86

  Philip IV’s meeting in, 146–53, 249–251n

  trade, international, 21–22, 218n

  Treaty of Anagni, 159

  Treaty of Meaux-Paris (1229), 38, 226n

  trial of Bernard (1319)

  arrest, 185–86

  Bernard’s challenge of commissioners, 189–90

  Bernard’s surrender, 198–99

  charges and investigation, 188–89, 193–98

  judges, 192

  Laurens’ painting of, 1–2

  move to the Cité, 190–92

  sentencing, 199–201

  torture of Bernard, 187–88, 194

  transcripts and records from, 6–7

  witnesses, 192–93, 197

  usage, xiii–xiv

  Venetian traders, 21–22

  Verdun-en-–Lauragais, 167

  Vilanova, Arnaud de, xv, 3, 170, 177, 187, 194–95

  Villani, Giovanni, 12, 216n

  Waldenses, 17, 42, 44–45, 116, 217n

  Wall, the

  Bernard sentenced to life in, 200–201

  construction and opening, 55

  corruption of warden, 53

  description of conditions, 56–58

  freeing the prisoners, 5, 131–33

  heretics sentenced to, 49

  overview, 36, 85–86

  Picquigny’s decision about prisoners in, 130–31

  See also prisoners from Albi

  Wasteland (Eliot), 11

  William of Occam, 19

  woad and woad fields, 37, 106, 226n

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  STEPHEN O’SHEA is a historian and the acclaimed author of Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars, and Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.