Faydit
Chevaliers Faydits (or Faidits) were the Occitan knights who fought against the Crusaders and French rule during and after the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) .
The refusal to submit to the crusaders under the leadership of Simon IV. De Montfort and to join them, or the commitment to the heresy of the Cathars also meant in most cases the loss of property. Count Raimund VI. of Toulouse led a large number of Faydits into battle at the Battle of Muret in 1213 . The defeat of Simon's son, Amaury , (1224) allowed some of them to regain their property for a short time, which they had to give up again during the crusade of King Louis VIII of France in 1226.
The new balance of power was finally regulated in the Treaty of Meaux-Paris , and new vassals loyal to the French crown were installed in the expropriated fiefs . A large number of Languedoc nobles found exile at the court of King Jacob I of Aragon , who was the supreme liege lord of most of Languedoc. Mainly based in Roussillon , the Faydits fought underground against the establishment of French rule in Occitania and against the incipient Inquisition . The guerrilla struggle reached its climax in 1240 with the failed uprising of Raymond II Trencavels . As a result, most of the Faydits gradually submitted to the crown of France and placed themselves in their service - for example Olivier de Termes , who besieged his former comrade Xacbert de Barbaira on the Cathar fortress Quéribus in 1255 and took prisoner.
List of known faydits
- Jourdain de Saissac
- Guillaume de Minerve
- Pierre de Fenouillet
- Olivier de Termes
- Guillaume de Peyrepertuse
- Jourdain de Cabaret
- Pierre Roger de Cabaret
- Pons de Mirabel
- Pierre Roger de Mirepoix the Younger
- Arnaud Roger de Mirepoix
- Guillaume de Lahille
- Bernard-Othon de Niort
- Raimund de Péreille
- Raymond II Trencavel
- Xacbert de Barbaira
- Bernard Jourdain de l'Isle-Jourdain
- Sicard de Puylaurens
- Aimery de Roquefort
- Raymond de Roquefeuille
- Raimund Sans de Rabat
- Augier de Rabat