[160] P. 87. “The worship of the reformed Albigenses had everywhere ceased” (p. 115). Cp. p. 116 as to the completeness of the final massacres. It is estimated (Monastier, p. 115, following De la Mothe-Langon) that a million Albigenses were slain in the first half of the thirteenth century. The figures are of course speculative. [↑]
[161] Cp. Lea, ii, 159; Lenient, La Satire en France an moyen âge, 1859, p. 43. [↑]
[162] Lea, vol. ii, ch. i. [↑]
[163] Sismondi, pp. 115, 117. [↑]
[165] Id. pp. 235–39; Lea, ii, 247, 259, 319, 347, 429, etc. [↑]
[166] Sismondi, p. 236; Llorente, as cited, i, 60–64; Lea, ii, 200. [↑]
[167] Matthew Paris records that in 1249 four hundred and forty-three heretics were burned in Saxony and Pomerania. Previously multitudes had been burned by the Inquisitor Conrad, who was himself finally murdered in revenge. He was the confessor of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, and he taught her among other things, “Be merciful to your neighbour,” and “Do to others whatsoever you would that they should do to you.” See his praises recorded by Montalembert, as cited, vol. i, ch. x. Cp. Gieseler, Per. III, Div. iii, § 89 (ii, 567). [↑]