Albigensian Crusade happened in 1209.
Song of the Albigensian Crusade was created in 1213.
Innocent III
Pope Innocent III called for a crusade against the Albigensians, a heretical sect in southern France, during the early 13th century. This call led to the Albigensian Crusade, which began in 1209 and aimed to eradicate Catharism and restore Catholic orthodoxy in the region. The crusade resulted in significant violence and the eventual suppression of the Albigensian movement.
Most of the crusades were named for either the number of the crusade or the area to which armies were marching. Some examples include the First through Ninth Crusades, the Northern Crusades and the Albigensian Crusade.
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Pope Innocent III called for a crusade against heretics in France primarily to combat the Albigensian heresy, which threatened the unity and authority of the Catholic Church. The Albigensians, who held dualistic beliefs that contradicted orthodox Christianity, gained significant support in the region. By launching a crusade, Innocent aimed to restore religious purity, eliminate heretical teachings, and reinforce the power of the Church in France. This campaign, known as the Albigensian Crusade, also served to consolidate royal power and expand the influence of the Church in the region.
They were called crusades. There were a number of crusades to the Holy Land, but there were others, such as the Northern Crusades against pagans of the Baltic region, and the Albigensian Crusade against French heretics.
One example is the Cathars, a Christian sect in southern France during the 12th and 13th centuries. The Catholic Church launched the Albigensian Crusade to eliminate the Cathars, resulting in their persecution and eventual extinction.
The term "Cathars" derives from the Greek word Katheroi and means "Pure Ones". They were a gnostic Christian sect that arose in the 11th century, an offshoot of a small surviving European gnostic community that emigrated to the Albigensian region in the south of France.The medieval Cathar movement flourished in the 12th century A.D. throughout Europe until its virtual extermination at the hands of the Inquisition in 1245. This was also known as the Albigensian Crusade. There are an ever increasing number of historians and other academics engaged in serious Cathar studies. Interestingly, to date, the deeper they have dug, the more they have vindicated Cathar claims to represent a survival of the Earliest Christian Church. Thank you! Brad Hoffstetter Communications Division Assembly of good Christians http://www.cathar.net May we suggest the following scholarly sources: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/ http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html http://www.languedoc-france.info/1212b_moreinfo.htm
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Most of the crusades we think of were wars with Christians on one side and Muslims on the other, so the answer would be Christianity and Islam. There were other crusades, however, with other religious intent. The Albigensian Crusade was one of several against Christian heretics. The Hussite Crusade was against protestants (Catholic vs. Protestant). There were crusades against pagans (Christian vs. pagan), and there were crusades against Mongol hordes (Christian vs. Mongol). There was even one crusade, the Aragonese Crusade, which was really a war between the Pope and the King of Aragon over possession of land.