SIMON DE MONTFORT
It was here that the crusaders under the guidance of Simon de Monfort and the Abbot of Citeaux Arnaury, undertook the first great heretic burning operation in which 140 men and women perished, while the crusading army sang the Te Deum.

« Les ne traiso per forsa ans que venga la granha
E i arson mant eretge felo de puta canha
E mot fola eretga, que ins el foc reganha »

“They took them by force, well before the summerthey burnt the heretics who are the sons of bitchesand the mad female heretics screamed in the flames”

(Guillaume de Tudèle, “The song of the Crusade”)