The Cathars (also known as Cathari from the Greek Katharoi for “pure ones”) were a dualist medieval religious sect of Southern France which flourished in the 12th century and challenged the authority of the Catholic Church. https://www.worldhistory.org/Cathars/ #History #AlbigensianCrusade #Cathars #Christianity

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains. https://www.worldhistory.org/Crusades/ #History #AlbigensianCrusade #BattleofHattin #BattleofNicopolis

The medieval Church established its monopoly over the spiritual life of Europeans in the Early Middle Ages (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1414/six-great-heresies-of-the-middle-ages/ #History #AlbigensianCrusade #Cathars #Christianity

The Albigensian Crusade (aka Cathars' Crusade, 1209-1229 CE), was the first crusade to specifically target heretic Christians - the Cathars of southern France. Not successful in repressing the heresy, the on-off campaigns over two decades, led by Simon IV de Montfort, did achieve their real purpose: the political annexation of the Languedoc region, eventually bringing it under the control of th...https://www.worldhistory.org/Albigensian_Crusade/ #AlbigensianCrusade #Cathars #Crusades