Pierre Roger de Cabaret

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Pierre Roger de Cabaret († after 1229) was an Occitan knight and faydit at the beginning of the 13th century.

Fight against the crusaders

Lastours castles
(from left to right: Cabaret, Tour Régine, Querthineux and Surdespine)

Together with his brother, Jourdain , Pierre Roger shared control of the three castles of Lastours , which housed a large Cathar community . At the beginning of the Albigensian Crusade , the brothers sided with the Occitan nobility against the Crusaders. In March 1209 they succeeded in repelling the siege of Cabaret by the crusaders by taking their opponent Bouchard de Marly prisoner. In revenge, Simon IV. De Montfort , the leader of the crusaders, had a hundred citizens of Bram mutilated and sent them as a warning in front of the walls of Lastour. Pierre Roger retaliated and destroyed the rearguard Montfort, who just Termes besieged. In the spring of 1211 the crusaders again besieged Lastours, this time successfully. But during the siege, Pierre Roger was able to negotiate favorable surrender terms with his prisoner Bouchard de Marly. So he gave up Lastours in exchange for land in the Béziers region .

In 1223, after the failure of Amaurys de Montfort , Pierre Roger came back into the possession of Lastours, where Catharism flourished again. The Cathar Bishop of Carcassonne took his seat here. Pierre Roger was able to repel several attacks by the Crusaders in the next few years, but in 1227 Humbert V. de Beaujeu began the siege, which ended in 1229 with the surrender of the defenders. Pierre Roger's further fate is unknown.

relationship

Pierre Roger's brother, Jourdain, was married to Etiennette de Pennautier . She entered medieval poetry as Na Loba , the Provencal she-wolf, and was sung about by Peire Vidal and Raimund de Miraval . The latter also sang about Pierre Roger's wife, Brunissende.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cabaret, Querthineux and Surdespine - the Tour Régine (royal tower) was only built after the Albigensian Crusades
personal data
SURNAME Pierre Roger de Cabaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Occitan Knight and Faydit
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1229