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7 unusual facts about Lavaur


Folquet de Marselha

Hated by many Toulousains and by Count Raymond VI of Toulouse he left Toulouse on 2 April 1211, after the crusaders laid siege to Lavaur.

Henry of Marcy

Henry returned to the Langudeoc in 1181 and led a military attack on Roger's town of Lavaur, which Roger's wife Adelaide immediately surrendered to him without giving a fight.

Jacques Féréol Mazas

Jacques Féréol Mazas (born 23 September 1782 in Lavaur – died 26 August 1849 in Bordeaux) was a French composer, conductor, violinist, and pedagogue.

Lavaur Cathedral

Lavaur Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Alain de Lavaur) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, located in the town of Lavaur, Tarn.

Peter II of Courtenay

Peter accompanied his cousin, King Philip Augustus, on the crusade of 1190 and fought (alongside his brother Robert) in the Albigensian Crusade in 1209 and 1211, when he took part in the siege of Lavaur.

Roger-Bernard II, Count of Foix

In 1220, he assisted his father in the recapture of Lavaur and Puylaurens and was instrumental in helping his father retake his lost dominions.

White Brotherhood

From the White Brotherhood Folquet selected 500 men-at-arms and sent them to aid the Albigensian Crusade in besieging Lavaur.


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