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Albigensian Crusade

Albigensian Crusade

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Sep 12, 2026

Donald HinesNARRATOR
35:38
a single scene of the bloody drama is known as the hans mill massacre a small settlement had been founded by mormon families on shoal creek and here on the thirtieth of october eighteen thirty eight a company of two hundred and forty fell upon the hapless settlers and butchered a score no respect was paid to age or sex gray heads and infant lips that scarcely had learned to lisp a word vigorous manhood and immature youth mother and maiden fared alike in the scene of carnage and their bodies were thrown into an old well in october eighteen thirty eight the governor of missouri the same lilburn w boggs issued his infamous exterminating order and called upon the militia of the state to execute it the language of this document signed by the executive of a sovereign state of the union declared that the mormons must be driven from the state or exterminated be it said to the honor of some of the officers intrusted with the terrible commission that when they learned its true significance they resigned their authority rather than have anything to do with what they designated a cold-blooded butchery but tools were not wanting as indeed they never have been for murder and its kindred outrages what the heart of man can conceive the hand of man will find a way to execute the awful work was carried out with dread dispatch oh what a record to read what a picture to gaze upon how awful the fact an official edict offering expatriation or death to a peaceable community with no crime proved against them, and guilty of no offense other than that of choosing to differ in opinion from the masses.
Donald HinesNARRATOR
37:23
American schoolboys read with emotions of horror of the Albigenses, driven, beaten, and killed, with a papal legate directing the butchery, and of the Vaudois, hunted and hounded like beasts, as the effect of a royal decree.
Donald HinesNARRATOR
37:40
and they yet shall read in the history of their own country of scenes as terrible as these in the exhibition of injustice and inhuman hate in the dread alternative offered them the people determined again to abandon their homes but whither should they go already they had fled before the lawless oppressor over well-nigh half a continent already were they on the frontiers of the country that they had regarded as the land of promised liberty thus far every move had carried them westward but farther west they could not go unless they were entirely beyond the country of their birth and gave up their hope of protection under the constitution which to them had ever been an inspired instrument the majesty of which as they had never doubted would be some day vindicated even to securing for them the rights of american citizens this time their faces were turned toward the east and a host numbering from ten to twelve thousand including many women and children abandoned their homes and fled before their murderous pursuers reddening the snow with bloody footprints as they journeyed they crossed the mississippi and sought protection on the soil of illinois there their sad condition evoked for a time general commiseration the press of the state denounced the treatment of the people by the missourians and vindicated the character of the mormons as peaceable and law-abiding citizens College professors published expressions of their horror of the cruel crusade.
Donald HinesNARRATOR
39:11
State officials, including even the governor, gave substantial evidence of their sympathy and good feeling.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
81:04
Savonarola was put down.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
81:06
The Albigeois were put down.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
81:08
The Vaudois were put down.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
81:11
The Lollards were put down.
LukeHOST
50:08
Anyway, next we got the Inquisition.
LukeHOST
50:12
Not the Spanish Inquisition, which of course no one expects, but the Inquisition itself as an institution cropped up in the 12th century to deal with the Waldensians and the Cathars, the good men and women of Languedoc, a.k.a. the Albigensians, Albigensian Crusade.
LukeHOST
50:37
Yeah, they got enough power and they could finally do this, and they decided that this centralizing effort was the best way to handle heresies going forward.
speaker_5ADVERTISER
50:49
Mm-hmm.
David AndersHOST
28:53
And so St. Dominic was attached to a cathedral and served a bishop, and he was traveling through France.
David AndersHOST
28:57
He was Spanish, but he was traveling through France, and he ran into all these Albigensian heretics.
David AndersHOST
29:01
And he said, well, somebody needs to do something for these fellows.
David AndersHOST
29:05
And so he was already familiar with the model of the canons regular, and he just adapted that and created the Dominican order.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
354:33
As the Duke of Normandy was the King of England, the civil wars in the latter country enabled the French king to annex Normandy to the royal possessions.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
354:44
The Albigensian Crusade so weakened the Count of Toulouse that he was forced to resign most of his lands to the king, who gradually secured almost all of Languedoc.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
354:56
These favoring circumstances were utilized skillfully by the Capetians.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
355:02
This work was done so methodically and the results were so striking that modern writers are apt to attribute to the rulers a conscious plan and prophetic spirit.

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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
361:04
Philip took possession of Normandy, 1203 and 1204, and most of John's other possessions in France.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
361:12
He met with serious opposition at only two or three castles, as many of the vassals of John were glad to change their suzerain.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
361:21
Philip took no part personally in the Albigensian Crusade, but watched it carefully and managed matters so that eventually Languedoc became the property of his descendants.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
361:32
Other fiefs were added by his shrewdness and diplomacy.
Sebastian MajorHOST
53:34
But in more recent years, the crusading impulse had become more local.
Sebastian MajorHOST
53:41
In 1208, just four years before the Children's Crusade, the Pope had called for the Albigensian Crusade.
Sebastian MajorHOST
53:49
This was a church-sanctioned war against a sect known as the Cathars, whose stronghold was in the Languedoc region in what is today southern France.
Sebastian MajorHOST
54:00
According to the Pope, the Cathars were heretics whose unorthodox theology was undermining Christendom.
JordanNARRATOR
61:56
Yet the medieval system began to be broken to pieces intellectually long before it showed the slightest hint of falling to pieces morally.
JordanNARRATOR
62:05
The huge early heresies like the Albigenses had not the faintest excuse in moral superiority.
JordanNARRATOR
62:12
And it is actually true that the Reformation began to tear Europe apart before the Catholic Church had had time to pull it together.
JordanNARRATOR
62:21
The Prussians, for instance, were not converted to Christianity at all until quite close to the Reformation.
Laura EisenhowerGUEST
78:45
So fragmentation of the Albion, the solar Christ body was broken into parts, distorted across the grid through druidic bloodline manipulation, obviously infiltrated druids, stone circle inversions, ley line hijack, Arthurian distortions, false king and fallen grail narratives, and Templar betrayals and weaponization of the grail codes.
Laura EisenhowerGUEST
79:03
So the inversion of the Cathar body, the Cathars were systematically hunted, tortured, and erased by church power structures, especially during the Albigensian Crusade, 13th century.
Laura EisenhowerGUEST
79:14
The Sophianic wisdom that once flowed through the land was replaced by Marian false archetypes, male-dominated theology, and suppression of direct gnosis.
Laura EisenhowerGUEST
79:23
So the Tenth Gate, Earth's Stargate, and the Arak-Aran region, as we know what's going on there, this is very much connected to Tiamat.
Karen Joan KahoticNARRATOR
9:52
Yet every engagement was irksome and every hour tedious in its lapse.
Karen Joan KahoticNARRATOR
9:56
In this state of mind he chanced to light upon a book written by one of the teachers of the Albigenses, or French Protestants.
Karen Joan KahoticNARRATOR
10:03
He entertained no relish for books, and was wholly unconscious of any power they possessed to delight or instruct.
Karen Joan KahoticNARRATOR
10:09
This volume had lain for years in a corner of his garret, half buried in dust and rubbish.
Gary WayneGUEST
24:34
So now when you see LB gentian as part of the religion of the Royales and the giants and the more of the modern age and at least into the middle ages, that's where the name comes from.
Gary WayneGUEST
24:46
Even though LB is the river, but it's the LB gins, that's the river named after a giant and gins meaning a patriarch in the, in Latin, and the Cathars were the sister religion to the Albigensians, and this was the religion of the Templars.
Gary WayneGUEST
25:05
So you start to see the intermingling of all the sort of elite in this secret sort of religion that's in plain sight.
Gary WayneGUEST
25:15
We're just told not to recognize it.

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