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The Cathars
What are Jews Really Like?
Béziers http://lovedasinner.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/beziers/
WEALTHY REGION
LOTS OF JEWS The sort of place where a Jew could make some money. And they came. The Viscounts seem to have liked them, because like most kings, they were often in need of a loan. “The viscounts cherished the most kindly feelings for them, and the greater part of the Christian inhabitants, being Albigenses, lived on friendly terms with their Jewish fellow-citizens.” (Richard Gottheil, Isaac Broydé, BÉZIERS, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 2002) (emphasis added) The Jews spent a lot of time ingratiating themselves with the Viscount, and one happy day they got a ruling that the Christians couldn’t throw stones at them any more during Holy Week. “through the intervention of the viscount Raymond Trencaval, the bishop Guillaume abolished, in 1160, the custom of throwing stones at the Jews during Holy Week“. (id.) (emphasis added)Once the old Christian traditions are cast aside, it doesn’t take long for the Jews to climb to power. You give them an inch, and they take a mile.
Once the religious stoning stopped, the Jews quickly took over the key public offices (id.). Naturally, this included the judiciary (id.) and the tax farming and treasury operations.
PERVERSION OF JUSTICE - SPECIAL FAVORS When
Jews were arrested for their crimes, the Viscount
Roger II even got them out of prison. For example,
in 1172 he got the fraudster Abraham ben David out
of the jail in Posquières. PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE GAME The ruler of Béziers in 1209 was Raymond Roger Trencavel, a man who ” relied strongly on Jews to run Béziers, his second seat of power.” (Raymond Roger Trencavel, Wikipedia.org) The Jewish scheme to get all the wealth of the town involved, on the one hand, the “court Jews” controlling the Viscount, and on the other hand, two Jews in religious orders. One was Arnaud Amaury, a baptized Jew (Jueri Lina, Under the Sign of the Scorpion, p. 11, http://www.conspiracyresearch.org/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=262) The other was one of Amaury’s closest colleagues, Dominique de Guzman, a Spanish Jew working for the Catholic Church as the Canon of Osma. Guzman went on to found the religious order of the Dominicans in 1215. (”Séjours Découverte en Pays Cathare”, French Holidays 2007, http://www.vivresansfrontieres.com/French_Version/French_Holidays_FR/FH_Pays_Cathare_FR.html) How effective were the baptisms? See Chapter 150. So how
about a little war based on religious grounds
(”sectarian violence”)? Kill the non-Jews in the
city and take their wealth?
A RELIGIOUS WAR
In these days, the popes had a lot of temporal power, and became were eager to make sure that people believed in their doctrines and were up-to-date with their tithes and offerings. When Innocent III became pope in 1198, he pressured his people to take action against the Cathar system. (Turley, Cathars)
The papal plan was to send missionaries to the Cathars to get their theology straightened out. These were heady days for churchmen, so they traveled with servants, gold table service, and fine clothes.The Cathars believed the way to salvation had a lot to do with self-denial. So there was a clash of beliefs. “The legates were weary of the task entrusted to them by the Pope and wished to abandon it, since they had achieved little or nothing in preaching to the heretics. Whenever they tried to preach to them, the heretics countered by pointing to the disgraceful behavior of the clergy and argued that if the legates wanted to reform the life style of the clergy, they would have to give up their preaching campaign.” . (Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensis, The History of the Albigensian Crusade, The Boydell Press, 1998. p. 17.)The Bishop of Osma encouraged the missionaries not to give up: “To calm the concerns of the legates the Bishop gave this salutary advice: leaving everything else aside, they should concentrate more vigorously on their preaching; and they should counter the criticism of the ill-disposed by displaying humility in all their conduct; by following the example of the Divine Master and by generally imitating the ways of the Apostles in all respects. However, the legates did not themselves wish to take responsibility for such an initiative; instead they promised that if some acceptable authority were to set an example, they would most willingly follow it. What more? At once the Bishop, that dedicated servant of God, put himself forward to show the way; he sent his household and wagons back to Osma and, content with a single companion left (Diego, Bishop of Osma) Montpellier together with Peter of Castelnau and Ralph.” (de les Vaux-de-Cernay, P. 17-18)The missionaries had been having a difficult time of things. Give up luxury? Even for a few weeks? Not a chance of it. They needed an example. The Bishop was willing to help. He sent his wagons back to Osma. A few months of piety and self-denial on the road couldn’t hurt. He couldn’t find many companions for his efforts, but did what he could.The Bishop of Osma and the monks arrived at the castrum named Servian, where they encountered Theodoric, previously known as William, a Frenchman. Theodoric was described in Catholic circles as “a son of perdition, the fuel of eternal hell-fire”. He was a man of noble descent. His uncle, a knight, had been condemned for heresy at a council in Paris, and later moved to Narbonne. Theodoric was “much admired and esteemed by the heretics”. (de les Vaux-de-Cernay, P.18) The Pope’s men did what they could, and claimed victory in the debates. The Cathars in the area thought their man Theodoric won. So even though the papal legates claimed they won the debates, they made no headway with the “heretics”. “It is also true that when the Albigensians spread and began to engulf larger and larger sections of the Southern French populace, Innocent dispatched special legates in the person of some Cistercians, but by their bearing and provocatively ostentatious way of living they only aggravated the situation.” (Walter Ullmann, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages, Methuan, 1974, p. 219) Even though the Bishop of Osma dispensed with luxury for a few weeks (or months), the Cathars weren’t fooled. In fact, they were annoyed by the arrogance of the papal missionaries. Peter of Castelnau was one of the most arrogant of the lot. Sure he was pretending to be humble, but the locals hated him.
“At this time Peter of Castelnau was travelling out of Provence on his pacing mule. He reached the Rhone at St Gilles, and there he excommunicated the count of Toulouse for supporting the mercenaries who were ravaging the countryside. Thereupon an evil-hearted squire, hoping to win the count’s approval, stepped like a traitor behind the legate, drove his sharp sword into his spine and killed him. The man fled at once on his fast horse to his home town of Beaucaire, where he had kinsmen. Yet the legate raised his hands to heaven before he died and in the sight of all those present asked God to forgive this wicked man. This was while he was receiving communion at about cockcrow. Then he died, just as the day was dawning. His soul went to God the Father and they buried him at St Gilles with many a Kyrie Eleison sung and many candles burning.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p. 13).While William of Tudela says that the Peter was killed by some squire, this could easily have been an “inside job”. The missionary approach hadn’t worked. Not even when the Bishop of Osma and Peter rode around on mules and played poor.But now one of the Pope’s servants had been killed in the line of duty. Sure Peter of Castelnau had prayed for forgiveness for his killer. There were people in Rome, though, who saw opportunity in this situation.
“You can be sure the pope was not pleased when he heard of his legate’s death. He grasped his chin in anger and called on St James of Compostela and on St Peter of Rome who lies in the chapel there. He spoke his anathema and then dashed out the candle. Brother Arnold of Citeaux was present, and so too were Mater Milo, that fine Latinist, and the twelve cardinals all in a circle. There it was they made the decision that led to so much sorrow, that left so many men dead with their guts spilled out and so many great ladies and pretty girls naked and cold, stripped of gown and cloak. From beyond Montpellier as far as Bordeaux, any that rebelled were to be utterly destroyed. This was told to me by Master Pons of Mela, who was present on behalf of the king who holds Tudela, lord of Pamplona and Estella, the best knight who ever sat a horse. (Maramelis, commander of the heathen, felt his strength! Castile and Aragon were there too; side by side their kings rode and fought. Intend to make a good new song about this, and shall write it out on fair parchment.)” (Tudela, p. 13) (emphasis added) While Diego, the Bishop of Osma, had some ideas about “displaying humility in all their conduct; by following the example of the Divine Master and by generally imitating the ways of the Apostles in all respects.”, his church had other ideas. The Divine Master talked about loving one’s enemies, and not killing. The Pope “Innocent” had methods in mind that had very little to do with Jesus.“The Abbott of Citeaux, however, sat with his head bent. Then he rose and, standing by a marble column, said to the pope: ‘By St Martin, my lord, this talking is a waste of time! Come, have your letters written in good Latin, and then I can set off. Send them to France, to the Limousin, to Poitou, the Auvergne and Perigord; have the indulgence proclaimed here too and all over the world as far as Constantinople. Proclaim that any man who does not take the cross shall drink no wine, shall not eat off a cloth morning or night, shall wear neither linen nor hemp and when he dies shall lie unburied like a dog.’ He fell silent, and his advice seemed right to all who were there.” (Tudela, pp. 13-14) (emphases added)The twelve cardinals liked the idea. Master Milo did. And so did the Pope. A full crusade.
AN ARMY IS RAISED
Proclaiming the
indulgence was a big motivator. It enabled a liberal
amount of sinning while under arms. The sort of
thing “that left so many men dead with their guts
spilled out and so many great ladies and pretty
girls naked and cold, stripped of gown and cloak.”
Since the indulgence was in force, it can’t be sin,
now can it? THE CAMPAIGN STARTS “This host condemned many heretics to be burned and had many fair women thrown in the flames, for they refused to recant however much they were begged to do so. And the Bishop of Le Puy arrived from Cassiers; he received large sums of money from Caussade and from the Bourg. From St Antonin where he first arrived, he went to the army besieging Casseneuil, for he thought they were few in number and wanted to join them.” (Tudela, p. 18) And who was leading the army? Naturally, the papal legate Brother Arnold Amalric (Evans, p. 287)Even the Bishop of LePuy was getting in on the fun. The papal missionaries had suffered a lot of ridicule and frustration in their evangelism campaign. Now the heretics who had laughed them to scorn hit the flames.The Abbot’s army was moving fast, and word reached the Viscount of Béziers: THE SET UP (BETRAYAL) “When the viscount of Béziers heard the report and knew that the army had passed Montpellier, he mounted his thousand-shilling horse and rode into Béziers one morning at dawn before it was fully light.Old and young, great and small, the citizens heard of his arrival and hurried at once to meet him. He told them to defend themselves with all their strength and said that they would very soon receive good support.‘I must leave for Caracassonne,’, he said, ‘they have been waiting for me there too long.’ That said, he rode out of the town. The Jews of Béziers followed him, and the other inhabitants were left in great distress and anxiety.” (Tudela, P. 19)What kind of “good support” was the Viscount planning? Why did the Jews travel together with the Viscount? The Jews had been living in Béziers for years. Getting rich. Wheeling and dealing. But they still hadn’t gotten all the wealth for themselves. So the Viscount, apparently in debt to the Jews, told the people of Béziers to vigorously defend themselves. While removing himself and his Jewish friends from the scene.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF RESISTANCE “The lords from Rance and Paris, laymen and clergy, princes and marquises, all agreed that at every castle the army approached, a garrison that refused to surrender should be slaughtered wholesale, once the castle had been taken by storm.” (Tudela, p. 21) So the Viscount effectively sentenced the people of Béziers to death. No assistance was sent to the people there. They didn’t surrender, and there was a massacre (like on Cyprus - see Chapter 11). Compare with Shechem, Porsgrunn, Russia, Ammon (Chapter 12), the tobacco industry (Chapter 1), the cosmetics industry, the Jewish bra business. Wholesale slaughter.A slaughter of the Cathars, naturally. “A number of decrees dealt with the Jews who were ordered to wear distinctive marks on their clothing so as to prevent intercourse of Christians with Jewish women or Jews with Christian women.” (Ullman, p. 222) Or maybe just to make sure they weren’t included in the “wholesale slaughter” at Béziers.A wealthy city, a lying prince in debt to the Jews, and the Jews in safety. What was the next logical step? The official story seems to be that Béziers was not stormed by knights, or even soldiers, but rather “servant lads”, armed with kitchen implements and clubs. Supposedly the citizens of Béziers were so frightened by the “servant lads” that they immediately took refuge in the high church. (Tudela, p. 21)
A MASS FOR THE DEAD (AND PLENTY OF THEM) Could the “servant lads” have included the Jews of Béziers come back to plunder? Like they did in Shechem (Chapter 9). “The priests put on vestments for a mass of the dead and had the church bells rung as for a funeral. And in the end the servant lads could not be kept out but forced their way into the town. There they took what houses they liked, and could have taken ten each if they had wanted to. They were in a frenzy, quite unafraid of death, killing everyone they could find and winning enormous wealth.” (Tudela, p. 21) The Jews knew who had what kind of wealth. They had been running the tax and judicial systems for years. “They took what houses they liked”.Just like with cigarettes (see chapter 1). Taking what markets they can. Africa, Asia. Winning enormous wealth. And killing everyone they can.Are there independent reasons for disbelieving Tudela’s contention that it was “servant lads”? Of course there are. First, we ask, who were the players on the field?Inside the walls, the citizenry of Béziers had no interest in dying, so they would have protected themselves.Outside the walls were French knights in the crusader army. They knew the pope could lay down a bann, excommunication, or just plain burning as a punishment if he didn’t like someone. The whole crusade got started when a priest, Peter de Castelnau, was killed. Consequently, no French knight would have been killing Catholic priests in their vestments in the church. The same thing applies to the French servant boys (squires). Also outside were the Jewish “priests” running the crusade, Arnaud Amaury and Dominique de Guzman. And, of course, the Jews who had been living in Béziers. They officially left the town before the crusader army arrived, but nothing stopped them from coming back and attacking the town from the outside, or accessing the city by a secret underground passage leading right in to the synagogue in the town. Who had a long-established track record of mass ritual murder? Who had no respect for the Christian priests? Who was happy to kill them all, but made sure to take the loot? The answer is obvious. According to Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, the mass ritual murder in Béziers was solely the work of the “ribaldi”. These were “scavengers” and “hangers-on” who attended the army. Not French knights. Not their squires. But a special breed.The “scavengers” “assaulted the walls on their own, broke into the city, opened its gates to the army, and wreaked terrible havoc on the inhabitants, orthodox and heretic alike.” (Norman, Zacour, The Children’s Crusade, A History of the Crusades, Volume II, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962, p. 327)The Jewish carpetbaggers attending General Grant’s army were also “ribaldi”. As the General stated in 1862:
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY “To the eternal shame of the Order, it was the Abbot of Citeaux Arnaud Amaury who, when asked by the captain of the Catholic army during the sack of Béziers how to distinguish the heretics among the inhabitants who had taken refuge in the church of the Magdalen, is claimed to have said: ‘Kill them all! God will recognize his own.’ The massacre commenced forthwith.” (Stephen Tobin, The Cistercians Monks and Monasteries of Europe, Herbert Press, 1995) (emphasis added)William of Tudela claims that the “servant lads” killed all the people in the high church. According to Tobin, and numerous other authorities, it was the Abbot of Citeaux Arnaud Amaury who gave orders for the slaughter. And it was the Catholic Army who did the business.And who was with the “Catholic Army”? In July of 1209, Dominique de Guzman was found in Lyon in the company of Catholic Crusader Commander Simon de Montfort leading the crusading army in Languedoc. (Quatrième partie : Les Cathares, Le Mystère, http://ekamp.club.fr/arcadia/t02a.htm ) The army which was involved in the destruction of Béziers (Raymond Roger Trencavel, Wikipedia.org)
PLENTY OF WEALTH FOR THIS BAPTIZED JEW “Arnold Amalric, Abbott of Citeaux, abbot of Cistercian monastery of Poblet near Tarragona in Catalonia from 1196 until 1198. In 1198, he was installed as abbot of Grandselve, about 40km north of Toulouse, which was the wealthy mother house of Poblet and other Cistercian abbeys in the Midi, including Fontfroide. Remained there until election as Abbott of Citeaux and head of the Cistercian order in 1201. Appointed as senior legate by Innocent III in May 1204 to help Peter of Castelnau.” (de les Vaux-de-Cernay, P. 16, footnote 4)This was a man who liked running wealthy houses.
WHEN JEWS WORK IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH If he had been a real Catholic Christian, there’s no way he would have instructed the “captain of the Catholic army” to kill even loyal Catholics in the church.“That is why they massacred them at Béziers, killing them all. It was the worst they could do to them. And they killed everyone who fled into the church; no cross or altar or crucifix could save them. And these raving beggarly lads, they killed the clergy too, and the women and the children. I doubt if one person came out alive. God, if it be his will, receive their souls in paradise! So terrible a slaughter has not been known or consented to, I think, since the time of the Saracens.” (Tudela, p. 21)We note that the Catholic clergy was slaughtered as well. Not excommunicated heretic preachers. Not raving sons of perdition. Loyal Catholic clergy. So we have an Abbott who is bloodthirsty, loves spoil and loot, and directs the killing of real Christian Catholics.This reminds me of Thomas de Torquemada, one of the top Dominicans in the Inquisition. Thomas de Torquemada had at least one Jewish grandmother. In his 15 years as an inquisitor, starting in 1483, he had more than 114000 victims. Of this number, 10220 were burned. (Peter de Rosa, Gottes Erste Diener – Die dunkle Seite des Papsttums, 1989, p. 212) Jewish. A top job in the Catholic church. Kills Catholics. Jews had been officially active in the Roman system for about 1000 years prior to the destruction of Béziers. Ever since the Edict of Caracalla in 212 gave Jews full citizenship rights in Rome. (de Rosa, p. 237) We know also that “converted” Jews could become priests (de Rosa, p. 240) Sure, Arnaud had Citeaux, and the Cistercian order under his management already. But he wanted more. Which he got. “Arnald, for instance, took the arch-bishopric of Narbonne once this had fallen into the hands of the ‘crusaders’”. (Ullman, P. 219) Innocent III may have been Jewish himself. Consider that at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, decrees were made regulating the payment of interest to Jewish money lenders. (Ullman, p. 240) All of the indications are there. We have an abbot (and baptized Jew) out of Spain, where numerous Jews were living. He is extremely eager of worldly gain. He says, Kill them all! But just means the Christians, including loyal Catholic laity and clergy. And where he came, “Panic spread and the town blazed from end to end.” (Tudela, P. 21) “On the day of St Mary Magdalene, 22 July 1209, Béziers fell to the Abbott of Citeaux and its inhabitants were massacred. The Jewish community, interestingly enough, had already left the city, accompanying its viscount Raymond Roger, who had gone to organise the defence of Caracassonne.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p. 3.) (emphasis added)
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