Re: Knights and Jews in the Middle Ages

[Erik & Karen Dutton <edutton@worldnet.att.net>]

Poster: Erik & Karen Dutton <edutton@worldnet.att.net>

Steinfeld wrote:
> It was after all a Papal Legate who uttered the importal word "kill them all, God will know
> his own" from the hills overlooking Jerrusalem.

Actually, those words were spoken on the occasion of Pope Innocent III's
Albigensian Crusade, and the Legate in question was discussing a town in
(I believe) the Languedoc, in France, that was considered to be a haven
for heretics of the Cathar persuasion.

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Rhodri
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