Guilhabert de Castres

Guilhabert de Castres ( * 1165, † 1240 ) was ' Katharerbischof ' of Toulouse 1226-1240 Maybe he was the father or the older brother of Izarn de Castres, a Cathar preachers and theologians..

Biography

The biographical data relating to him are extremely sparse and probably not all reliable: For the year 1193 it is mentioned that he maintained a home in Fanjeaux in which the ' Perfect ' ( parfaits ) of the sect met. In 1204 he is called filius major ( ' deacon ') of Gaucelm, the then Katharerbischof of Toulouse; In the same year he is said to have four high-ranking ladies ( Esclarmonde de Foix, Aude de Fanjeaux, Fays de Durfort and Raymonde de Saint- Germain ), the Consolamentum, the only sacrament of Cathar donated. In 1207, he was also at the so-called Colloquium of Pamiers, the last major debate between Catholics and Cathars, to which on the Catholic side and Domingo de Guzman, who later became St. Dominic took part.

When the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau was then murdered in Saint- Gilles du Gard in the following year ( 1208), it was over with the talks and discussions between the two parties. As of now, the weapons should talk.

During the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) must Guilhabert de Castres to have fled. Anyway, he escaped in 1220 with the help of Bernard Othon de Niorts the besieged city of Castelnaudary. In 1226 he founded a new bishopric in Pieusse - the diocese Razès; the following year he appears in Mirepoix. In the years 1229-1232 he sought refuge with Jourdain de Hunaud Lanta in the castle of Bézu (or castle Albedun ). 1232 he negotiated with Raymond de Péreille, lord of Montsegur, ' whether in that castle now the Cathar church or community can have their residential and headquarters and the preacher can come and go ' ( ... ad hoc ut in ipso castro posset habere domicilium et caput hereticorum ecclesia et inde possent neurotransmitters et diffundere predicatores Suos ). Whether Guilhabert de Castres the siege and fall of Montsegur ( 1243 quarters ) still experienced, is unclear.

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Zoé Oldenbourg writes in her book about the history of Catharism: