The Bloodiest Crusade (TRIH ep 303)
1209 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade, contextualizing the movement’s later mythologization (e.g. in The Da Vinci Code) and presenting the historical reality of the war launched under Pope Innocent III. They trace Innocent’s call to armed pilgrimage in 1209, major atrocities such as the massacre at Béziers and the sieges of Carcassonne and Minerve, and the rise of Simon de Montfort as the crusader leader. The conversation follows the long, bru...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1209
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)