This interactive map shows settlements in Languedoc in which Cathar religious, known as heretici in the inquisitorial registers, are attested to have dwelt in houses they owned or rented. The period covered ranges from the oldest memory going as far back as 1175 up until the fall of the castrum of Montségur in 1244. After Montségur, no evidence can be found for the survival of overt Cathar houses in Languedoc; Cathar Christians could no longer live publicly and were forced to live as itinerant fugitives. This change was already ongoing in the 1230s.
Data sources: Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 609 (edition by Evans & Sherwood, n.d.; Duvernoy, 2002; Rehr, 2019); Duvernoy, 1976: 231-232; Roche, 2005.
- Type of primary source: trial records.
- Data by David Zbíral.
- Map by Adam Mertel.
This map and dataset are outputs of the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET). The project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation (project No. GX19-26975X “Dissident Religious Cultures in Medieval Europe from the Perspective of Social Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems”). We gratefully acknowledge this financial support.