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Were Occitanian Templars also Cathar heretics?

Château de Quéribus (Aude), a castle of the Cathar country

No medieval source shows the Templars of Occitania as Cathar heretics, yet an inquisitor condemned a Cathar sympathiser who died in a Templar house in 1243. Did the Temple support the heretics, tolerate them, or simply stay out of the Albigensian Crusade (1209 to 1229)?

The chateau of Douzens in the Aude. Douzens was seat of a Templar commandery from 1133

Between Carcassonne and Narbonne, the Templars of the commanderie de Douzens turned the river Aude into flour, cloth and cash. Their charters, the Cartulaires des Templiers de Douzens, let us follow them weir by weir and canal by canal. How did a military order become a miller, and who did the real work?

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The Rule of St Benedict c. 500 CE, starting point for the rule of the Cistercian Order, which was the monastic mother of the Order of the Knights Templar

Charta Caritatis c. 1119 CE, rule of the Cistercian Order, originally written by Stephan Harding, 3rd abbot of the first Cistercian Abbey at Citeaux, France. The Charter in other languages is to be found here

Primitive Rule of the Knights Templar c. 1129 CE, by Bernard de Clairvaux, abbot of the Cistercian Clairvaux Abbey, France, presented by him at the Council of Troyes, and accepted there after which the Order was officially endorsed by the Church.

In Praise of the New Knighthood c. 1136 CE, by Bernard de Clairvaux, in support of the juvenile Order of the Knights Templar. The complete text of this work (all 13 chapters in French) can be found here

Rule of the Order of St John (Hospitallers) by blessed Raymond de Puy (1120-1160)

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Were Occitanian Templars also Cathar heretics?

Water Power at Douzens - How the Templars Harnessed the Aude

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