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and most of his work was farming. As bayle he farmed not only his own land, but also that of the Comté. This included the land seized from Cathar heretics. As with the rest of the family
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While not as great a womanizer as his brother Pierre, Bernard did father a child out of wedlock: Mengarde
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Bernard was a member of the powerful
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Bernard himself was arrested by the inquisition in 1324, after a month in prison he died in the summer of that year.
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Pierre was the unquestioned leader of the family and
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