1178

Pierre Maurand, a wealthy merchant and probably a Cathar, was condemned by a representative of the Pope. He renounced his heretical beliefs and was sentenced to spend 3 years as a penitent in the Holy Land.

1218

25 June 1218

In the ninth month of the seige of Toulouse by Simon de Montfort and his Crusader Army, a rock fired by the Toulousian artillery - operated by the womenfolk - hit de Montfort squarely on the head. "His eyeballs, brains, teeth, skull and jawbone all flew into pieces," wrote a chronicler, "and he fell down upon the ground dead, blackened and bloody." The people of Toulouse rejoiced.

1229-37

During these 8 years the backbone of Catharism in Toulouse was broken by Catholic persecution.

1321

Guillaume Belibaste, considered to be the last Cathar perfectus, was burned to death by the Inquisition.

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