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Gaston VI, Viscount of Béarn

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on 12 September. There Peter died in a losing cause because he had overconfidently neglected to summon his vassals with enough time for them all to arrive. Gaston was one of those who did not participate. Soon after the battle, however, Innocent III publicly pardoned the lords of Béarn and Comminges.
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but later complained because he could not collect the ransom money and he had to pay the prisoners expenses. In 1187, when fourteen years old, Gaston was declared of age and paid homage to
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in southern France. Innocent ordered Gaston not to intervene against the crusaders, but Gaston took part in the relief of Toulouse from the besieging army of
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On 15 January 1213, Gaston did homage to Peter II of Aragon along with Bernard IV of Comminges, (circa 1150 – Count 1175 – 22 February 1225),
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Gaston died without issue in 1214 and was succeeded by his brother William Raymond. His widow retained Bigorre.
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The only penance imposed upon Gaston was to give to the bishop two of the districts of the city of
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The chronicle of William of Puylaurens: the Albigensian crusade and its Aftermath
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Like most of the baronage of southern France, Gaston did not participate in the
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His loyalty to the king of Aragon, however, remained clearly expressed in the
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A Most Holy War: the Albigensian Crusade and the battle for Christendom
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The Hospitallers and the Holy Land: Financing the Latin East, 1187-1274
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from the 9th century, now in the mountains in southwest France
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Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250
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The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade
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in 1211. He also took part in the disastrous attack on
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on the other. Gaston was firmly in the Aragonese camp.
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and Viscount of Marsan through his marriage in 1196 to
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Luchaire, Achille; Krehbiel, Edward Benjamin (1912).
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Index

Viscount of Béarn
Count of Bigorre
Petronilla

Viscounts of Béarn


Foix
Béarn
Bigorre
Mary
William I of Béarn
William Raymond
Santa Cruz de Volvestre
Aragon
Pelegrino de Castellarzuelo
Barbastro
Henry II of England
Alfonso II of Aragon
Huesca
Third Crusade
county of Toulouse
viscounty of Dax
Mixe
Ostabarret
Ostabat
Orthez
Soule
Pope Innocent III
Albigensian Crusade

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