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PIERRE DE CASTELNAU (d. 1208)

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PIERRE DE
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CASTELNAU (d. 1208)  ,
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French ecclesiastic, was
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born in the
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diocese of
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Montpellier . In 1199 he was
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archdeacon of Maguelonne, and was appointed by
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Pope
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Innocent III. as one of the legates for the suppression of
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heresy in
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Languedoc . In 1202, when a
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monk in the Cistercian
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abbey of Fontfroide,
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Narbonne, he was designated to similar
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work, first in
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Toulouse, and afterwards at Viviers and Montpellier . In 1207 he was in the
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Rhone valley and in
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Provence, where he became involved in the strife between the
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count of Baux and
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Raymond, count of Toulouse, by one of whose agents he was assassinated on the 15th of
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January 1208 . He was beatified in the
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year of his
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death by Pope Innocent III . See De la Bouillerie, Le Bienheureux
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Pierre de
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Castelnau et
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les Atbigeois au XIII. siecle (
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Paris, 1866) .

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