Faidit

As Chevaliers Faydits (or Faidits ) Occitan those knights were called, which during and after the Albigensian Crusade ( 1209-1229 ) fought against the Crusaders and French rule.

The refusal to submit to the Crusaders under the leadership of Simon IV de Montfort and to join them or the commitment to the Cathar heresy meant in most cases, the loss of property. Count Raymond VI. Toulouse led in 1213 at the Battle of Muret a large number of Faydits in the fight. The defeat of Simon's son, Amaury ( 1224 ) made ​​it possible to recover some of their property to them briefly, but she had to give back during the crusade of King Louis VIII of France in 1226.

The new balance of power were eventually settled in the new Treaty of Meaux- Paris and the dispossessed feudal new, loyal to the French crown devoted vassals were used. A large number of nobles of Languedoc was an exile at the court of King James I of Aragon, who was the supreme lord of the greater part of the Languedoc. Mainly from Roussillon starting fought the Faydits from the underground out against the establishment of French rule in Occitania and against the onset of the Inquisition. The guerrilla war took place in 1240 in the failed uprising of Raimund II Trencavel its peak. As a result, submitted by and by most Faydits the crown of France, and put themselves in the service - for example, Olivier de Termes of 1255 his former comrades Xacbert de Barbaira besieged on the Katharerfeste Quéribus and captured.

List of known Faydits

• Jourdain de Saissac
• Guillaume de Minerve
• Pierre de Fenouillet
• Olivier de Termes
• Guillaume de peyrepertuse
• Jourdain de Cabaret
• Pierre Roger de Cabaret
• Pons de Mirabel
• Pierre Roger de Mirepoix the Younger
• Arnaud Roger de Mirepoix
• Guillaume de Lahille
• Bernard Othon de Niort
• Raimund de Péreille
• Raimund II Trencavel
• Xacbert de Barbaira
• Bernard Jourdain de l' Isle- Jourdain
• Sicard de Puylaurens
• Aimery de Roquefort
• Raymond de Roquefeuille
• Raimund Sans de Rabat
• Augier de Rabat

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