"The murder of the legate Pierre de Castelnau sent a thrill of horror throughout Christendom like that caused by the assassination of Becket thirty-eight years before. Of its details, however, the accounts are so contradictory that it is impossible to speak of it with precision."
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Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1887)
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Pierre de Castelnau
Pierre de Castelnau (–January 1208) was a papal legate.
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