Treaty of Paris (1229)
The peace by which Raymond VII of Toulouse submitted to the church and to King Louis IX of France, ending the wars that began with the crusade of 1209. He promises to hunt heretics in his lands and to pay for masters to teach at Toulouse.
The treaty is drawn up as a declaration by Raymond VII, the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse. It is dated at Paris on the day before the Ides of April in the year 1228; the year then began at Easter, and the editors give the date as 12 April 1229.
The count promises the papal legate that he will fight heretics, their believers and their protectors, sparing neither kin nor vassals, have them sought out as the legate shall direct, and pay a reward in silver to anyone who captures one. He undertakes to restore church property, to pay tithes and a large indemnity, to maintain masters of theology, canon law, the arts and grammar at Toulouse for ten years, and to take the cross for five years overseas. The preliminary articles are printed in two parts: the count’s commission to his proctor, dated at Toulouse on 10 December 1228, and the articles themselves, dated January 1228 by the same reckoning, that is 1229. They provide that his daughter is to marry a brother of the king, if the church grants a dispensation, and that she is to have the diocese of Toulouse after his death.
These are the terms the victors set, in the words they gave the defeated party to seal.
Cited in
- 1209 to 1229, firm date