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Pierre de Castelnau (d. January 15, 1208), French ecclesiastic, was natural in the bishopric of Montpellier. Inside 1199 he was archdeacon of Maguelonne, and was appointed by Pope Innocent III as one of the legates for the suppression of heresy in Languedoc. Within 1202, when the monk in the Cistercian abbey of Fontfroide, Narbonne, he was designated to similar act, 1st inside Toulouse, and subsequently at Viviers and Montpellier. Inside 1207 he was around a Rhone valley & in Provence, in which he became included in the strife between the count of Baux and Raymond, count of Toulouse, by one of whose agents he was assassinated on the 15th of January 1208. He was beatified in the year of his dying by Pope Unwary III. View De la Bouillerie, ''Le Bienheureux Pierre diamond state Castelnau et les Albigeois au 13' siècle'' (Paris, 1866). category:1208 deaths fr:Pierre de Castelnau | |
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Catholic Encyclopedia Bl. Pierre de Castelnau, Cistercian, worked for the conversion of the Albigensians, was martyred in 1208. For All the Saints Brief biography of Bl. Peter of Castelnau. |
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