Song of the Albigensian Crusade

The singing from the Albigensian Crusade ( Occitan Canso or Cancon de la Crosada ) is the signature of a Poems of 9578 verses in Occitan by two authors, written 1208-1218, under the events in Occitania at this time after the invasion of the crusaders in Languedoc Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester after the death of Simon IV of Montfort describes.

Authors

• William of Tudela was the author of the first 2772 verses (130 songs ). He was a priest from Tudela, Navarra, who had settled in Montauban. As a man of the Church, he was positively disposed to the Crusaders, even though he condemned the bloody siege of Beziers, of Lavaur (Tarn ). Against 1212, when the French were approaching Montauban, William marched to Bruniquel over the Aveyron, located. During the reign of the elder brother of Raymond VI was of Toulouse, Baldwin, who had fallen under the spell of the Crusaders. The story ends abruptly in July 1213.

• An anonymous writer is the author of the second part with more than 6800 verses. This unknown author created a work of poetic quality and linguistic purity. Although a Catholic, he gradually became quite anti-clerical. He is totally against the crusade and defends honor, values ​​and coexistence of medieval Occitan society. He tells episodes 1213-1218: the battle of Muret, the Lateran Council, siege and capture of Beucaire, the revolt of Toulouse and the Battle of Baziège. The part is particularly important because it is one of the most important works for understanding this period in the history of the Albigenses.

Swell

• La chanson de la croisade albigeoise, eds Eugène Martin- Chabot ( Lutetiae: Les Belles Lettres, 1931-1961 3 vols. ) ( Occitan and French)
• The Song of the Cathar Wars, translated by Janet Shirley ( Ashgate Publishing, 1996) ( English )
• Alain de Roucy et la voix de la chanson de la anonymous croisade albigeoise, Paul Linden, French Forum, Vol 32, No. 1-2, 2007-2008 (French)

• Poetry
• Cathars
• Occitania
• Crusades