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okasha

(11,573 posts)

9. Calling the Albigensian Crusade a civil war

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 11:22 AM

Feb 2013

is a stretch to begin with. Quite apart from Catharism, there were profound cultural an political differences between northern and southern France, large portions of which were in fact English territory. The so_called Crusade was, from the French point of view, an attempt to regain lands that had been lost when Eleanor of Aquitaine divorced Louis VII and married Henry Plantagenet.