There was no love between the south, that had suffered so recently with the Albigensian Crusade, and the Frankish north.
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On 7 September 1303, the king's advisor Guillaume de Nogaret led a band of two thousand mercenaries on horse and foot.
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Known for his very impulsive interference in international affairs, Boniface's stringent reaction was the fierce bull Clericis laicos of 1296.