Scene from the siege of Toulouse showing the death of Simon IV de Montfort, 25 June 1218. His head was smashed by a stone from a mangonel catapult. Bas-relief from the church of Saint Nazaire, Carcassonne, 13th century. Episode du siege de Toulouse representant la mort de Simon de Montfort. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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