A popular history of France : from the earliest times . s III.,though at first very pronounced in his opposition to theAlbigensians, had less ability, less perseverance, and less in-fluence than his predecessor. Finally, on the 20th of June,1218, Simon de Montfort, who had been for nine months un-successfully besieging Toulouse, which had again come intothe possession of Raymond VI., was killed by a shower ofstones, under the walls of the place, and left to his son Amaurythe inheritance of his war and his conquests, but not of hisvigorous genius and his warlike renown. The struggle stilldragge
A popular history of France : from the earliest times . s III.,though at first very pronounced in his opposition to theAlbigensians, had less ability, less perseverance, and less in-fluence than his predecessor. Finally, on the 20th of June,1218, Simon de Montfort, who had been for nine months un-successfully besieging Toulouse, which had again come intothe possession of Raymond VI., was killed by a shower ofstones, under the walls of the place, and left to his son Amaurythe inheritance of his war and his conquests, but not of hisvigorous genius and his warlike renown. The struggle stilldragged on for five years with varied fortune on each side,but Amaury de Montfort was losing ground every day, andRaymond VI., when he died in August, 1222, had recoveredthe greater part of his dominions. His son, Raymond VII.,continued the war for eighteen months longer, with enoughof popular favor and of success to make his enemies despairof recovering their advantages ; and, on the 14th of January,1224, Amaury de Montfort, after having concluded with the. DEATH OF DE MONTFORT. — Page 104. Chap. XVIII.] THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. 105 Counts of Toulouse and Foix a treaty which seemed to haveonly a provisional character, went forth, says the History ofLanguedoc, with all the French from Carcassonne, and leftforever the country which his house had possessed for nearlyfourteen years. Scarcely had he arrived at the court ofLouis VIII., who had just succeeded his father, Philip Augus-tus, when he ceded to the King of France his rights over thedomains which the crusaders had conquered by a deed con-ceived in these terms: Know that we give up to our LordLouis, the illustrious King of the French, and to his heirs for-ever, to dispose of according to their pleasure, all the privilegesand gifts that the Roman Church did grant unto our fatherSimon of pious memory, in respect of the countship of Tou-louse and other districts in Albigeois; supposing that the popedo accomplish all the demands made
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