The Role of Religion in Civil Wars

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10. No, it wasn't about Aquitaine/Gascony

It was set in Languedoc, on the Mediterranean end of the Pyrenees, not in the area under English control, on the Atlantic coast. And it remains an obvious fact that, as the OP puts it, "THE precipitating cause" was the Pope wanting to stamp out heresy/a competing religion (depending on you point of view). The king of France may have then seen it as an opportunity to increase his control over the area, but, as the Enc Brit says, he came to it late. You could argue, I suppose, that Toulouse was effectively independent at the time, so that it became a war of conquest, not a civil war.