Bernard-Othon de Niort

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Bernard-Othon de Niort (* around 1201, † around 1245), also Bernart-Oth d'Aniort , was lord ( seigneur ) of Niort in the Razès region and of Montréal . He was Laurac's last seigneur .

biography

Bernard-Othon was the son of Guillaume de Niort and Esclarmonde de Montréal-Laurac; thus he was the grandson of Sicard and Blanche de Laurac . His brothers were Géraud de Niort , Guillaume Bernard and Raymond de Roquefeuille . Both his parents and grandparents as well as his siblings were adherents of the Cathar faith in Occitania.

At the age of five or six he was entrusted to his grandmother Blanche de Laurac, who maintained an open house in Laurac for members of the Cathar movement.

He was married to Nova du Cabaret, who came from another family close to the Cathar faith (cf. Lastours ). His life - as far as it is known - bears the traits of a chivalric novel:

Data

  • 1213: Participation in the Battle of Muret on the side of the Crusaders with his father and brothers Géraud, Guillaume and Raymond de Roquefeuille
  • 1220: Help for the first Cathar bishop of Toulouse Guilhabert de Castres and liberation of Raymond Aguilar from the city of Castelnaudary besieged by Amaury de Montfort
  • 1226: Together with Olivier de Termes and other Faydits , he escapes to Limoux. He receives power of disposal over Laurac , his grandparents' legacy, from the hands of the French King Louis IX.
  • 1228/9: Defense of Cabaret Castle ( Châteaux de Lastours ) against the Crusaders
  • 1230: Defense of Marseilles against an attack by the Provençal Count Raimund Berenger IV.
  • 1230: An arrow hits him in the battle of Verfeil against the troops of Bishop Foulques ; he receives the consolamentum , but he escapes death. Immediately after his recovery he takes up the fight again, is captured, but exchanged for a prisoner from his ancestral castle Niort.
  • 1232: Together with his son and brother Bertrand, he attacks properties of the Archdiocese of Narbonne .
  • 1234: He offers shelter to Cathar refugees in his Niort Castle.
  • 1235: The Inquisition Court of Carcassonne condemns the entire Niort family as heretics and confiscates their property. His brother Guillaume Bernard, the only one to appear before the tribunal , is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • 1240: He shares the prison with his brother Guillaume, but her brother Géraud submits to the French king. Both will be released subject to conditions.
  • 1243: In a trial in Carcassonne, members of the Templar Order accuse him of (alleged) belonging to a gang.

After that his track is lost. In a trial run by her sister Esclarmonde in 1259/60, he and his brothers were posthumously rehabilitated.

See also

literature

  • Mathieu Mir: Histoire du Pays de Sault
  • Jean Duvernoy: La fin des seigneurs de Niort et de Laurac
  • Blandine Sire: Albedun et son histoire XIe-XVe siècles. In: Bulletin de la Société d'Études Scientifiques de l'Aude, Tome XCVII, 1997. pp. 73 to 87
personal data
SURNAME Niort, Bernard-Othon de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aniort, Bernart-Oth d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Seigneur
DATE OF BIRTH around 1201
DATE OF DEATH around 1245