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Pierre de Castelnau

French ecclesiastic (died 1208)

Summary

French ecclesiastic (died 1208)

Field	Value
beatified_date	1208
beatified_by	Pope Innocent III
name	Blessed Pierre de Castelnau
image	Castelnou-assassinat.jpg
caption	Death of Pierre de Castelnau, from a 14th-century miniature
birth_place	Diocese of Montpellier, France
death_date	15 January 1208
death_place	Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, France

Pierre de Castelnau (? - died 15 January 1208) was a French ecclesiastic who was made papal legate in 1199 to address the Cathar heresy before being murdered in 1208. Following his death, Pope Innocent III beatified him by papal order, excommunicated Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, and declared the Albigensian Crusade.

Life

Pierre de Castelnau was born in the diocese of Montpellier. He became archdeacon of Maguelonne, and in 1199 was appointed by Pope Innocent III as one of the papal legates for the suppression of the Cathar heresy in Languedoc. In 1202, he made a profession as a Cistercian monk at the abbey of Fontfroide, Narbonne, and by 1203 was confirmed as papal legate and chief inquisitor, first in Languedoc, and afterwards at Viviers and Montpellier.

In 1207, Pierre was in the Rhone valley and in Provence, where he became involved in the strife between the count of Baux and Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse. Castelnau was assassinated on 15 January 1208, possibly by an agent of Raymond, but this was never proven. Nevertheless, Pope Innocent III held Raymond responsible: Pierre's murder was the immediate cause of Raymond's excommunication and the start of the Albigensian Crusade.

Pierre was beatified, through papal order, in 1208 by Pope Innocent III. The relics of Pierre de Castelnau are interred in the church of the ancient Abbey of St-Gilles.

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