Between 1209 and 1229, Pope Innocent III initiated the Albigensian Crusade to eliminate the Gnostic Cathar dualists in southern France. During the sack of Béziers in 1209, when soldiers asked how to distinguish heretics from orthodox Catholics, Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric reportedly commanded 'Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius' (Kill them all, for the Lord knows those who are His). Between 10,000 and 20,000 townspeople were slaughtered in a single day, and the Dominican Inquisition was created in the aftermath to hunt surviving believers.
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Archive Record · 1200s
'Kill Them All, God Will Know His Own': The Albigensian Crusade and Cathar Annihilation
Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric & Pope Innocent III / 1200s
Between 1209 and 1229, Pope Innocent III initiated the Albigensian Crusade to eliminate the Gnostic Cathar dualists in southern France. During the sack of Béziers in 1209, when soldiers asked how to distinguish heretics from orthodox Catholics, Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric reportedly commanded 'Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius' (Kill them all, for the Lord knows those who are His). Between 10,000 and 20,000 townspeople were slaughtered in a single day, and the Dominican Inquisition was created in the aftermath to hunt surviving believers.
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