Download or read book Massacre at Montségur written by Zoé Oldenbourg and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow- Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest princes in Western Christendom, premier baron of all the territories in southern France. So began the Albigensian Crusade, which was to culminate in 1244 with the massacre of Cathars at the mountain fortress of Montsegur.