The family tables I–XXVI are given in alphabetical family-name order. The heretics are denoted by an asterisk. An alphabetical list of all the peasants begins on p. 380 below.
Cathar missionaries (p. 244) from Ax-les-Thermes, converted to Catharism in Lombardy (p. 253) in 1300 (p. 267).
(a) PIERRE; his brother (b) GUILLAUME; PIERRE’s son (c) JACQUES and daughter (d) GUILLEMETTE
(a) PIERRE*: his propagandist group method (p. 26); his nephews (called de Rodes, from Tarascon) denounced the village heretics in 1308 (p. 63); burned shortly after 1302 (p. 83); his profession: a clerk of law (p. 233); together with his son Jacques, schooled Guillaume Bélibaste [VI b] in heretical matters (p. 240); fathered Jacques and Guillemette (P. 193).
(b) GUILLAUME*: son-in-law of Arnaud Benet, brother of Guillaume Benet of Montaillou (p. 27); trust in Montaillou as a Cathar stronghold (p. 30); faithful frequenter of the Belot household (p. 45); married Gaillarde Authié (p. 63); Gaillarde’s confessions at the Lent Inquisition of 1308 possibly led to the mass arrest of Montaillou (p. 63; cf. p. 256); danced at Béatrice de Planissoles and Bérenger de Roquefort’s wedding (p. 160); imprisoned for heresy in Carcassonne in 1323 (p. 183); hereticated Raymond Benet (p. 211); his profession: a clerk of law (p. 233); lent Pierre Clergue (priest) the ‘book of the holy faith of the heretics’ (p. 236).
(c) JACQUES*: Pierre Authié’s son (p. 83); preached to the shepherds (pp. 30, 84); taken by the Inquisition in 1305 (p. 88); master/mentor of Pierre Maury (shepherd) (p. 123).
(d) GUILLEMETTE: married Arnaud Teisseire (p. 193) who maltreated her (p. 234); Arnaud was a notary and the nearest ‘real’ doctor to Montaillou (p. 222); he had a bastard son, Guillaume, whom he also beat (p. 234); Arnaud’s imprisonment and death in Pamiers (p. 331).
Table of Pierre Azéma’s family
Catholic, anti-Cathar household, consisting of the Azéma brothers, Pierre and Pons, and their mother Raymonde Azéma, known as Na Carminagua (pp. 267-8).
(a) PIERRE, married to (b) GUILLEMETTE; their son (c) RAYMOND and (d) unnamed daughter.
(a) PIERRE: son of Mme Carminagua (p. 29); concerned with self-protection and the defence of the domus (p. 25); kept an anti-Cathar house (pp. 30, 35); together with Pierre de Gaillac, denounced Pierre Clergue (priest), for which they were jointly denounced as traitors by Bernard Clergue (bayle) (pp. 35, 268); cousin of Bishop Fournier (p. 59); had Bernard Benet incarcerated in the château dungeons for being an accomplice of the Clergues (p. 59); Bishop Fournier supported Pierre’s domus 1300–21 (p. 271); anti-Clergue clan activist (pp. 271–3); imprisoned in Carcassonne through Bernard Clergue’s contacts, where the jailor so ill-treated him that he soon died (p. 273).
(d) unnamed daughter: offered by her father Pierre as wife to one of Gauzia Clergue’s sons [Xd] (pp. 25, 180), on condition that Gauzia left the Clergue clan and joined that of the Azémas (p. 271).
Table of Pons Azéma’s family
(a) PONS, married to (b) ALAZAIS; their son (c) RAYMOND
(a) PONS: son of Mme Carminagua (p. 29); good Catholic, mistrusted by Guillaume Authié (p. 267); distant cousin of Bishop Fournier (p. 268).
(b) ALAZAIS*: very active heretical conversationalist (p. 27); assisted Brune Pourcel with Pons Clergue’s funeral rites (p. 31); called ‘Madame’ as mistress of a very important ostal (p. 35); received threats from Guillaume Benet and Raymond Belot should she denounce the Authié brothers (p. 50); one-time mistress of Pierre Clergue (priest) (p. 155); widowed, became a cheesemonger and pig-farmer (p. 253); messenger for the heretics (p. 253); spread the rumours concerning Béatrice de Planissoles’s affairs with Pierre Clergue (priest) and Pathau Clergue [IXa], the priest’s illegitimate cousin (p. 254).
(c) RAYMOND*: acting head of the household (p. 34); took food to the ‘goodmen’ (p. 162); aspired to be a parfait (p. 253).
(a) ARNAUD, married to (b) SYBILLE (née BAILLE); their two sons (c) BERNARD and (d) ARNAUD
(a) ARNAUD: Catholic notary in Tarascon (pp. 195,202); as a determined anti-Cathar he displeased his wife, who drove him out of her ostal (pp. 195,202).
(b) SYBILLE*: née Bailie, of Ax-les-Thermes (pp. 90, 195); stock-raiser of Ax, separated from her husband, by whom she had two sons, Bernard and Arnaud (the informer) (p. 90); she was burnt at the stake for heresy (p. 90); the owner by inheritance of her own house (i.e. the maternal ostal) at Ax (p. 195).
(c) BERNARD: shared a bed in Barthélemy Borrel’s house with Pierre Maury (shepherd), who was Borrel’s employee (pp. 89–90) [Borrel, of Ax, was the brother-in-law of Arnaud Bailie Senior, not (a), (p. 88); cf. Arnaud Bailie the elder, of Montaillou, son-in-law of Barthélemy Borrel of Ax-les-Thermes (p. 115)].
(d) ARNAUD: this was the Arnaud Baille/Sicre (of Ax, p. 125) who became the chief informer to the Inquisition in his attempt to repossess the confiscated maternal ostal (pp. 33, 52,90,195); a shoemaker (p. 122); insinuated his way into Guillaume Bélibaste’s colony of heretics in order to destroy it (pp. 130–1); apparently he had a sister who was promised in marriage to Arnaud Marty [XVI c] (p. 181); after his parents had separated his mother sent him to his father to be educated, when he was seven years old (p. 195); N.B. the children of this union used both the parental surnames (p. 195).
Family 1
(a) VITAL, married to (b) ESCLARMONDE; their son (c) JACQUES
Family 2
(a) RAYMOND, married to (b) ?; their four sons (c) PIERRE (a shepherd, p. 75), (d) JACQUES, (e) RAYMOND and (f) ARNAUD
Family 3
(a) GUILLAUME: of Montaillou (p. 111); parentage unknown; migrant shepherd (passim); accused of heresy by his employer’s family at Mérens (p. 11); described the life of the itinerant shepherds from his own experience (p. 111 et passim); not a heretic (pp. 11, 313).
(a) GUILLAUME (Senior); his sons (b) GUILLAUME and (c) RAYMOND; their relation (?) (d) BERNARD
(a) GUILLAUME*: the elder, the rich farmer from Cubières (pp. 83, 86); father of Guillaume Bélibaste, the parfait or pseudo-parfait, who was much loved by Pierre Maury (shepherd) (p. 83); lived with his three sons (Guillaume, Raymond (p. 87) and ?) and his two daughters-in-law (? and Estelle (p. 86)) and their children in the domus at Cubières (pp. 86–7).
(b) GUILLAUME*: the parfait – anti Pope, King of France, Bishop Fournier and the Lord Inquisitor of Carcassonne (p. 13); killed a shepherd, so had to leave the prosperous farm and fraternal domus at Cubières, becoming first a shepherd, then a parfait (p. 70); later settled down as prophet to a small Albigensian colony in Catalonia, where he became a maker of baskets or carding combs (pp. 70–1); in 1313 (?), Pierre Maury was presented to the Albigensian colony at San Mateo and Morella in the Tarragona region, which colony consisted of a small group of heretics from Montaillou and elsewhere who had gathered around Guillaume Bélibaste the younger (p. 94); he occasionally helped the team of shepherds led by Pierre Maury (p. 94); he and Guillemette Maury [XVI b] cheated Pierre Maury out of some sheep (p. 95); persuaded Pierre Maury to marry his own concubine, Raymonde Piquier, who was already pregnant, it seems, by Guillaume; and then dissolved the union, having thus suited his own ends, after a few days (pp. 97–102); had lived with Raymonde Piquier for a long time at Morella (p. 100); captured by the Inquisition (p. 102); took gross advantage of Pierre Maury’s love for him, and of his powers as a parfait (Chapters IV–VII); burned at the stake (p. 218); an undistinguished orator, the pupil of Pierre and Jacques Authié (p. 240).
(c) RAYMOND*: son of Guillaume the elder (p. 87); believer in the heretics (p. 85).
(d) BERNARD*: stock-breeder in the region of Arques (p. 79); proposed the marriage of Pierre Maury (shepherd) to Maury’s then employer, Raymonde Pierre’s daughter, Bernadette Pierre (p. 79); important connections with heresy (pp. 80–1).
The second wealthiest family in Montaillou; their domus was Cathar (p. 27), and was the focal point of heresy in the village, for it was here that the Authié brothers first stayed after their conversion to Catharism (p. 267).
(a) BELOT (no Christian name given), married to (b) GUILLEMETTE (old ‘BELOTE’); their four sons (c) RAYMOND, (d) GUILLAUME, (e) BERNARD and (f) ARNAUD; two daughters (g) RAYMONDE and (h) ALAZAIS
(b) GUILLEMETTE*: often referred to as ‘Belote’; effectively subdued subversive anti-Cathar elements (p. 37); old friend of the matriarch Mengarde Clergue (p. 43); hereticated before her death in 1311 (pp. 220, 269, 271); in 1306, her son-in-law Bernard Clergue (bayle) threatened to have her imprisoned in Carcassonne, which fate befell her, but Bernard Clergue stood surety for her and she was released (p. 269).
(c) RAYMOND*: first cousin of Raymonde Arsen [XXVIc] (p.42), whom he asked to come and work as a servant in the domus, as his sister Raymonde (g) was leaving to marry the bayle, Bernard Clergue (pp. 42–3).
(d) GUILLAUME*: Montaillou farmer (p. 28); godson of Guillaume Benet (p. 45); was a shepherd (p. 69); died before 1324 (p. 77); his brother-in-law Bernard Clergue threatened him with imprisonment in Carcassonne (p. 269).
(e) BERNARD*: married Guillemette Benet (pp. 42,45); imprisoned for attempted rape on Guillaume Authié’s wife (p. 45); first cousin and landlord of Arnaud Vital (p. 46); had two illegitimate children by Vuissane (Raymonde Testanière) who worked in the Belot domus 1304–07 (p. 46).
(f) ARNAUD*: married Raymonde Lizier [XIIIb] who was eventually imprisoned for heresy (p. 27); a widow of three years when she married Arnaud (p. 180).
(g) RAYMONDE: married Bernard Clergue (bayle), a love-match (pp. 187,220).
(h) ALAZAIS: married, had a child (p. 45).
The third wealthiest family in Montaillou: Cathar domus (pp. 27, 28).
(a) GUILLAUME, married to (b) GUILLEMETTE (‘BENETE’); their three sons (c) RAYMOND, (d) BERNARD and (e) PIERRE; their four daughters (f) ALAZAIS, (g) MONTAGNE, (h) ESCLARMONDE and (i) GUILLEMETTE
(a) GUILLAUME*: brother of Arnaud Benet of Ax, who was the father-in-law of Guillaume Authié (p. 27); it was through the Benet domus that heresy was re-introduced into Montaillou in 1300 (p. 43); godfather of Guillaume Belot (p. 45); labourer-cum-farmer (pp. 118–19); hereticated before his death by Guillaume Authié (p. 219); godfather of Esclarmonde Clergue [Xe] (p. 226).
(b) GUILLEMETTE*: a village matriarch, sometimes referred to as ‘Benete’ (p. 141).
(c) RAYMOND*: hereticated by Guillaume Authié (pp. 211, 219); died (p. 210).
(d) BERNARD*: would-be informer (p. 32); Pierre Azéma had him thrown into the château dungeons and his livestock seized and given to the Comte (p. 59); relegated on release to the status of a shepherd (p. 71); arrested several times by the Inquisition and on one occasion betrayed by Alissende Roussel, sister-in-law of his brother Pierre (e), possibly because she had been a temporary mistress of Pierre Clergue (priest) (pp. 71,155).
(e) PIERRE: married Gaillarde (family name unknown); Gaillarde Benet and her sister Alissende Roussel had both been mistresses of the priest (pp.71,155,157).
(f) ALAZAIS*: hereticated before her death (p. 65) in her parental home by Guillaume Authié (p. 219); deloused her mother (p. 141); married Barthélemy d’Ax (p. 219).
(i) GUILLEMETTE: married Bernard Belot (pp. 42, 45); sentenced to life imprisonment, fetters and bread and water in 1321, although she had been saved from the Inquisition twelve years before by Pierre Clergue (priest), because of the strength of the inter-marriage connections (p. 56).
The wealthiest family in Montaillou.
(a) PONS, married to (b) MENGARDE; their four sons (c) GUILLAUME, (d) BERNARD, (e) PIERRE and (f) RAYMOND; their two daughters (g) ESCLARMONDE and (h) GUILLEMETTE.
(a) PONS*: his death and funeral rites (p. 31); a die-hard Cathar, alarmed at the depravity and spying of his son Pierre (e) (p. 60); had a brother, Guillaume Clergue, whose bastard son Pathau Clergue (p. 153) raped Béatrice de Planissoles (p. 150) and then kept her publicly as his mistress (p. 153); his brother Guillaume also had a natural daughter, Fabrisse Clergue, who married Pons Rives [XXIII c] (p.158).
(b) MENGARDE*: called ‘Madame’ as the mistress of the most important ostal in Montaillou (p. 35); old friend of the other militant Cathar matriarchs, Guillemette Belot (p. 43) and Na Roqua (p. 251); Raymonde Guilhou (Arnaud Vital’s widow) became her delouser, and through Mengarde was converted to Catharism (pp. 46, 61, 298); sent food to imprisoned Montaillou heretics (p. 61); son Pierre (e) had her buried in the church under the altar of the Virgin of Montaillou (p. 225).
(c) GUILLAUME: had a bastard son, Arnaud Clergue (pp. 56,153); this Arnaud married into the Lizier family (p. 175); Alazaïs Gonela was Guillaume’s mistress (p. 163).
(d) BERNARD*: bayle of Montaillou, tried bribery to release his brother Pierre (e) from the episcopal prison (p. 14); collected tithes for himself and for the superior powers (p. 21); prisoner of the Inquisition (pp. 54, 55); worshipped his brother Pierre as his ‘god’ and ‘ruler’ (pp. 35, 55, 60); deloused by old ‘Belote’ (p. 141); fathered a natural daughter, Mengarde, whom he used as a messenger to the heretics (p. 153), and as a servant in the domus (p. 42); married Raymonde Belot, whom he loved dearly, as he did his mother-in-law, old Guillemette, and the whole Belot ostal (pp. 153, 187–8); daughter Mengarde married Raymond Aymeric of Prades d’Aillon (p. 175); tried unsuccessfully to get many of the past mistresses of Pierre (e) to perjure themselves in the court of the Inquisition in order to save him (p. 270); imprisoned in Pamiers, having first been put under house arrest (p. 270); served only a month of his sentence (fetters, bread and water) before dying at the end of the summer of 1324 (p. 273).
(e) PIERRE*: priest of Montaillou, and double agent (pp. 12, 65); arrested by the Inquisition and died in prison (p. 14); collected tithes for himself and for the superior powers (p. 21); organized his father’s funeral rites (pp. 31–2); after the murder of the anti-Cathar Arnaud Lizier, took Grazide Lizier [XIII d] as his mistress (p. 29); was Béatrice de Planissoles’s business executive (pp. 35–6), and became her lover (pp. 39,164–6); took Raymonde Guilhou as his temporary mistress (p. 46); carried out a vendetta against the Maurs ostal [XVII] (p. 50); official representative of the Carcassonne Inquisition (p. 58); buried his mother in the chapel at Montaillou (p. 61); took Gaillarde Benet and her sister Alissende Roussel temporarily as his mistresses (p. 71); Grazide Lizier, born of a bastard branch of the Clergue family, became his willing mistress at the age of fourteen years (p. 151); inherited the mistress of his bastard cousin (Pathau Clergue), Béatrice de Planissoles (p. 153); his one unsuccessful sexual conquest, attempted on Raymonde Fauré (née Clément, p. 202), (pp. 154–5); list of his mistresses (p. 155); married off his mistress Grazide Lizier (née Rives), illegitimate granddaughter of Guillaume Clergue (the priest’s uncle), to Pierre Lizier (p. 158); method of contraception (pp. 172–4); lent the ‘book of the holy faith of the heretics’ by Guillaume Authié (p. 236), which book brought about the conversion to Catharism of the Clergue brothers and their servant and cousin Raymonde Arsen, according to Jean Maury (p. 236).
(f) RAYMOND: used his brother Bernard’s manorial authority to pursue Guillaume Maurs (p. 59); married Esclarmonde Fort, who was accused by Alazaïs Fauré (née Guilhabert) of having been present at Guillaume Guilhabert’s heretication (p. 66); his brother Pierre (priest) had sexual relations with his wife Esclarmonde (p. 155).
(h) GUILLEMETTE: ignorant about Catharism (p. 257).
(a) BERNARD, married to (b) GAUZIA; their sons (c) RAYMOND and (d) unnamed, though it seems probable that he was called PIERRE; their daughter (e) ESCLARMONDE
(a) BERNARD: the bayle’s namesake (p. 204); the son of Arnaud and Gauzia Clergue (pp. 25, 33).
(b) GAUZIA*: née Marty (p. 170); contemplated informing on the heretics (p. 25); came from the religiously neutral house of her mother Na Longua (pp. 29, 268); temporarily mistress of Raymond Ros of Montaillou (p. 170); Guillaume Benet her fellow-sponsor (p. 226); denounced her Cathar friends to the rector of Prades in the confessional (p. 312).
(d) unnamed son: his existence is implied in Pierre Azéma’s conversation with Gauzia Clergue (p. 25); may have been the Pierre Clergue who married Guillemette Rives (pp. 34,192),
(e) ESCLARMONDE: brought back from her marital home at Comus to die in the family domus at Montaillou, the bayle having ensured that; she was hereticated (pp. 33, 219); had married Adelh of Comus (p. 226); Guillaume Benet was her godfather (p. 226); Prades Tavernier administered her consolamentum (p. 227).
(a) PHILIPPE; his daughters (b) BEATRICE and (c) GENTILE
(a) PHILIPPE: friendly towards Catharism, was eventually condemned to wear the yellow cross (p. 160).
(b) BEATRICE: married the châtelain of Montaillou, Bérenger de Roquefort, who died young (p. 11); mistress to a bastard, then a Cathar priest and finally to an orthodox priest (p. 16); entertained superstitious beliefs (p. 32); married Othon de Lagleize and committed adultery with Pierre Clergue (priest) (p. 39); by 1308 she had been widowed twice (p. 64); took a young lover when quite old, the priest Barthélemy Aurilhac, who later threatened to denounce her to the Inquisition (pp. 131, 166-8); raped by Pathau Clergue, the bastard cousin of Pierre Clergue (priest) (pp. 150,153); widowed the next year, became Pathau Clergue’s mistress and was publicly kept by him (p. 153); four daughters, called Condors, Esclarmonde, Philippa and Ava (p. 161); she and her lover Barthélemy Aurilhac imprisoned by Fournier in 1321, and both were released in 1322, though Béatrice had to wear the double yellow cross (p. 168).
(c) GENTILE: sister of Béatrice (p. 165); zealous Catholic, helped persuade Béatrice to conclude her affair with the Cathar priest (p. 165).
A heretical household (p. 28).
(a) JEAN, married to (b) ALLEMANDE; their son (c) GUILLAUME; their four daughters (d) ALAZAIS, (e) SYBILLE, (f) GUILLEMETTE and (g) RAYMONDE
(b) ALLEMANDE: maintained friendly relations with Arnaud Vital, her daughter Alazaïs’s one-time lover (p. 171).
(c) GUILLAUME: a shepherd (p. 69); hereticated before his death (p. 32); died at the age of fifteen years (pp. 219,228–9).
(d) ALAZAIS: married Arnaud Fauré (pp. 32, 228); Arnaud Vital’s mistress prior to her marriage (p. 228), and he had instructed her in heresy (pp. 46, 170); husband Arnaud employed Pierre Maury as a shepherd (pp. 77,96); niece Raymonde (née Clément, p. 202) married Pierre Fauré, whose impotency caused her to leave home and live with Alazaïs, at which time Pierre Clergue tried, unsuccessfully, to importune her favour (pp. 154–5, 202); Alazaïs and her sister Raymonde had both been mistresses of Pierre Clergue (priest) (p. 155).
(f) GUILLEMETTE: married Jean Clément of Gébetz (p. 228); left her marital home and was ill in bed in her father’s domus (p. 278).
(g) RAYMONDE: one-time mistress of the priest (p. 155).
NOTE: The relationships between the members of this domus are not at all clear from the Register. Some references are inconsistent and contradictory. These are denoted by the symbol +.
(a) RAYMOND; (b) RAYMONDE (née D’ARGELLIERS); (c) ARNAUD; (d) GRAZIDE; (e) PIERRE; (f) an unnamed female member of the LIZIER family (who married Arnaud Clergue, bastard cousin of the priest)
(a) RAYMOND: head of the ostal, a simple peasant who was a good Catholic and thus hated the heretics, for which he was murdered (p. 267); married to Raymonde (née d’Argelliers, see (b)) (p. 267).
(b) RAYMONDE: née d’Argelliers, married to Raymond Lizier (a), her first husband, thus becoming Raymond Lizier (p. 267); widowed through her husband’s murder (p. 267), though she was suspected of involvement in the crime (p. 267); referred to as Raymonde d’Argelliers, widow of Raymond Lizier (p. 268); she was threatened by the priest, Pierre Clergue, should she denounce four named female heretics (p. 268); referred to as Raymonde Lizier, very friendly with the confirmed heretical members of the Belot household (p. 27); three years after losing her first husband (p. 180) she remarried, this time to Arnaud Belot, changing her name from Raymonde Lizier to Raymonde Belot (p. 27); referred to as Raymonde Belot at the time when she made use of the Benet kitchen (p. 8); her second marriage is referred to as the marriage of Raymonde d’Argelliers to Arnaud Belot (p. 184); + ‘After the murder of my first husband, Arnaud Lizier of Montaillou …’ (p. 180); + Raymonde was suspected of having been involved in the murder of her first husband, Arnaud Lizier (p. 184); gave evidence to the court of the Inquisition in 1323 as Raymonde Belot (p. 8); ended her days in prison for heresy (P. 27).
(c) ARNAUD: anti-Cathar who was murdered (pp. 29,180); the bayle and the priest implicated in his death (p. 330); after his death, the house of Lizier came into the Clergues’ sphere of influence (p. 29).
(d) GRAZIDE: née Rives, daughter of Pons and Fabrisse Rives [XXIII c]; mistress of the priest from the age of fourteen or fifteen years until she was twenty (pp. 29,158); Pierre Clergue (priest) married her off when she was sixteen years old to Pierre Lizier, who allowed the illicit affair to continue (p. 158) until Grazide and the priest wearied of being lovers (P. 159).
(e) PIERRE: married Grazide (née Rives) (pp. 158, 159) when he was perhaps an elderly man (p. 159); marriage lasted four years, terminated by his death (p. 158); left Grazide a twenty-year-old widow (p. 159).
(f) unnamed woman: married Arnaud Clergue, bastard son of Guillaume Clergue [IX c] (p. 175).
The MARTY family of Junac in Ariège: heretical (p. 28).
(a) PIERRE, married to (b) FABRISSE; their three sons (c) GUILLAUME, (d) BERNARD and (e) ARNAUD; their three daughters (f) BLANCHE, (g) RAYMONDE and (h) ESPERTE
(a) PIERRE: a blacksmith (p. 310).
(b) FABRISSE: maiden name unknown.
(d) BERNARD: poor shepherd from Junac whose rich family of blacksmiths had been ruined by the Inquisition (p. 72); honoured St Julian (p. 308); anti-Cathar (p. 113).
(e) ARNAUD: sold sheep and their wool to make money when in need (P. 103).
(f) BLANCHE: sister of Guillaume Bélibaste’s concubine Raymonde Piquier (née Marty) (pp. 101, 139); took refuge from the Inquisition in Spain with Emersende Marty of Montaillou [XVb] (pp. 101, 139); came from a wealthy family of blacksmiths (p. 129); formed a close association with Esperte Cervel and lived with her and her daughter Mathena (who married Jean Maury [XXe]) in Lérida (p. 129); text suggests that she was either widowed or estranged from her husband (p. 129); together with Raymonde (g), survived the Inquisition without imprisonment (p. 218).
(g) RAYMONDE: married Arnaud Piquier of Tarascon, whom she left to become the concubine of the parfait Guillaume Bélibaste (p. 202); briefly married to Pierre Maury (the shepherd) (pp. 98–100) in order to save the parfaif’s reputation, as she was already pregnant (p. 100).
The MARTY family of Montaillou (p. 101).
(a) PIERRE, married to (b) EMERSENDE (née MAURY); their daughter (c) JEANNE
(a) PIERRE: husband of Emersende (pp. 113,310).
(b) EMERSENDE*: married to Pierre Marty (pp. 113,210); a refugee in Spain together with Blanche Marty of Junac (p. 101); disapproved of Pierre Maury’s ‘shot-gun’ and short-lived marriage to Raymonde Piquier [XIV c] (p. 101); distressed by Pierre Maury’s disagreeable life-style (p. 120); reproached Pierre Maury for his constant journeyings because of the danger for everyone should he be caught, and so offered him a refuge in her house in Catalonia (pp. 134–5); Pierre Maury’s aunt (p. 186); heretical sister of Guillemette Marty (née Maury) (p. 52); conspired to murder her Catholic daughter, Jeanne Befayt (née Marty) (p. 52); referred to as Emersende Befayt (p. 134), i.e. she probably adopted her son-in-law’s name, in the context of her continuing to live with her daughter Jeanne, despite the fact that Jeanne kept attacking her (pp. 134, 242–3); delighted that Pierre Clergue, the priest, had been arrested (p. 139); eventually Emersende and her daughter Jeanne Befayt died in an epidemic (pp. 218, 220).
(c) JEANNE: Catholic daughter of Emersende Marty (p. 292); mother conspired to murder her (p. 52); married Bernard Befayt (pp. 120, 292), thus becoming Jeanne Befayt; her mother would seem to have assumed her daughter’s married name when she went to live with her (she may have been widowed), during which time Jeanne used to attack her (pp. 134, 242–3), while Bernard beat Jeanne in order to protect his mother-in-law (p. 192); Bernard Befayt, a woodcutter, died in an accident in the forest of Benifaxa in Spain (pp. 120, 218); Jeanne Befayt helped Pierre and Arnaud Maurs [XXII c and f] to lead their flock of sheep out of Montaillou (p. 104); Pierre Maury’s (shepherd) cousin (p. 186); died with her mother, Emersende, in an epidemic (pp. 218, 220).
Family 3
(a) BERNARD, brother of Guillaume and Jean of Montaillou, married to (b) GUILLEMETTE (née MAURY); their two sons (c) ARNAUD and (d) JEAN
(a) BERNARD: died in the mountains at Orta (pp. 94,218), not long before the winter of 1315–1316 (p. 94).
(b) GUILLEMETTE*: (née Maury), the namesake of Pierre Maury’s sister (pp. 94, 218), and their aunt (p. 181); widowed, so moved from Orta to San Mateo for ease of livelihood and to be near the Bélibastes (pp. 94, 195); thus bécame the head of the ostal at San Mateo, and so reverted back to the name of Guillemette Maury (p. 196); became a small farmer with vineyard and flock of sheep (p. 95); cheated her nephew Pierre Maury (shepherd) in a sheep deal (p. 95); was the sister of Pierre Maury (not the shepherd) (pp. 125, 196); Pierre (shepherd) and his sister, Guillemette Maury, not to be confused with their aunt and uncle, may have been named after them (p. 181); was urged on to adore the Cathar Bible by Guillaume Bélibaste (parfait) (p. 235).
(c) ARNAUD*: an invalid (p. 99); with his parents, encountered other heretical Montaillou peasants/shepherds in Juncosa (p. 113); a marriage had been arranged for him with an unnamed sister of Arnaud Sicre (p. 181).
(d) JEAN: not a ‘believer’ (p. 181); married a non-heretic of San Mateo, while a refugee there, called Marie, and his mother greatly approved the match (p. 187), although the parfait Guillaume Bélibaste refused to preside at the wedding (p. 181); known as Jean Maury (p. 196).
A heretical family (pp. 28, 41, 74).
(a) PIERRE, married to (b) MENGARDE; their four sons (c) ARNAUD, (d) GUILLAUME, (e) RAYMOND and (f) PIERRE; their daughter (g) GUILLEMETTE
(a) PIERRE: lived next door to his brother Bernard Maurs [XIXa] (p. 41); his house was in open warfare with the priest (p. 41), this because of the priest’s two-faced activities whereby Guillaume (d), Arnaud (c) and Pierre (a) were all imprisoned by the Inquisition in 1308, and only Guillaume was released (p. 50); imprisoned at Carcassonne with his sons Pierre (f), Guillaume (d) and Bernard (? may refer to Bernard, son of Raymond Maurs [XVIII d]) (p. 74).
(b) MENGARDE: Pierre Clergue (priest), acting through his brother the bayle, had her tongue cut out for ‘false witness’ against the priest (pp. 41, 50, 64, 72).
(c) ARNAUD: imprisoned by the Inquisition in 1308 through the priest’s agency (pp. 50–1); he and his brother Pierre (f) were once helped with their sheep by Jeanne Befayt (p. 104); was chef de cabane one summer in the Riucaut Pass (p. 107); arrested by the Inquisition (p. 218).
(d) GUILLAUME: former peasant of Montaillou turned shepherd and outlaw (pp. 12–13, 69); i hunted by Pierre Clergue (p. 50); concerned with family revenge on the Clergues rather than motivated by Cathar zeal (p. 71); caught at Puigcerda, arrested and imprisoned (pp. 71, 218); imprisoned at Carcassonne for heresy (p. 74); greatly admired Pierre Maury, whom he wished to rule over the shepherds (p. 84).
(e) RAYMOND: joined his brother Guillaume in Ax-les-Thermes in 1309 and together with Jean Benet they conspired to murder the priest on many occasions 1309–17 (p. 51); fell ill and died at Sarreal? (pp. 218, 221) (though this may relate to one of the other two Raymond Maurs tabulated).
(f) PIERRE: of the four Pierre Maurs tabulated, it seems reasonable to suppose that it was Guillaume’s brother, this Pierre, whose conspiratorial fervour waned (p. 51); imprisoned at Carcassonne (p. 74).
(a) RAYMOND, married to (b) GUILLEMETTE; their two sons (c) PIERRE and (d) BERNARD
(a) RAYMOND: son Pierre a first cousin of Guillaume Maurs [XVII d] (p. 117), which suggests that Raymond was the brother of the heads of the other two Maurs households, Pierre and Bernard.
(c) PIERRE: member of a team of shepherds (p. 117); first cousin of Guillaume Maurs [XVII d] (p. 117).
(d) BERNARD: possibly the Bernard who was imprisoned at Carcassonne (P.74).
(a) BERNARD, married to (b) GUILLEMETTE; their two sons (c) RAYMOND and (d) PIERRE
(a) BERNARD: mother Guillemette Maurs (a widow) lived in the domus (p. 41); employed Jean Pellissier as a shepherd for three years, and Jean’s brother Bernard Pellissier as a ploughboy, housing both in the ostal (p. 41); brother of Pierre Maurs [XVII a] (pp. 41, 74); together with his mother, Guillemette Maurs, was imprisoned by the Inquisition (p. 74).
(d) PIERRE: fled from Montaillou in 1308, after the raid on the local heretics by the Inquisition (p. 74), and settled in Catalonia before returning to Montaillou in 1321 to marry one of Guillaume Autrne’s daughters (pp. 74, 183).
A heretical household (p. 28).
(a) RAYMOND, married to (b) ALAZAIS; their six sons (c) GUILLAUME, (d) PIERRE, (e) JEAN, (f) ARNAUD, (g) RAYMOND and (h) BERNARD; their two daughters (i) GUILLEMETTE and (j) RAYMONDE
(a) RAYMOND*: weaver of Montaillou (p. 6); instructed his children in Catharism (p. 214); house was destroyed three times for heresy (p. 241).
(b) ALAZAIS: also called Alazaïs Maurine (p. 339).
(c) GUILLAUME*: shepherd (p. 28); died before 1324 (p. 77).
(d) PIERRE*: shepherd (p. 28 et passim); lost his ‘fraternal portion’ of the family domus (pp. 36,123); ‘kidnapped’ his sister Guillemette (with her consent) from her bullying husband (p. 49); outlawed for heretical activity (p. 60); escaped the mass arrest of 1308 (pp. 63–4); looked after Arnaud Fauré’s (his uncle, p. 129) and Raymond Maulen’s (his first cousin, p. 79) sheep (p. 77); made first contacts with heresy through his brother Guillaume (c) and the Belot shepherds (pp. 77, 78); left home when eighteen years old, in 1300–01 (p. 78); his love affair with the non-believer Bernadette den Asquinath at Arques (pp. 78–79); first contacts with heresy while living in Raymond Maulen’s house, while employed by Raymond Pierre, a staunch Cathar, at Arques (p. 79); Bernard Bélibaste tried to arrange a marriage between Pierre Maury and Raymond Pierre’s six-year-old daughter, Bernadette [XXII c] (p. 79); in 1302, had his first conversation with a parfait (p. 81), Pierre Authié (p. 82); greatly influenced by Jacques Authié (pp. 83–4); chef de cabane (p. 84); cousin of Raymond Marty [XV d] (p. 85); employed by Barthélemy Borrel, brother-in-law of Arnaud Bailie Senior of Montaillou (p. 88 et passim); flirted with Borrel’s maidservant, Mondinette (Raymonde Isarn) (p. 89); saved his sister from her husband’s violence (p. 91); cheated in a sheep deal by his aunt, Guillemette Marty (née Maury) (p. 95); cheated out of some sheep by his friend Guillaume Bélibaste (parfait) (pp. 95–6); worked for Raymond Boursier of Puigcerda, together with his brother Arnaud (f), 1310–11 (p. 93); worked intermittently for his uncle, Arnaud Fauré (p. 96); worked for Brunissende de Cervello in 1319 (pp. 96,97), who possibly became his mistress at this time (p. 98); very friendly with the Bélibastes, but was arrested soon after they were (p. 97); Guillaume Bélibaste (parfait) persuaded him to marry his concubine Raymonde Piquier [XIVc], but dissolved the marriage after less than a week (pp. 98–100); taken captive by the Inquisition, imprisoned in 1324 (pp. 102, 218); loved Guillaume Bélibaste more than his own brothers (p. 126).
(e) JEAN: shepherd (p. 38); always present at the family’s Cathar meals (pp. 38, 248, 249); was offered as security by his brother Pierre on a sheep deal (p. 51); married Mathena Cervel* of Juncosa in Tarragona (pp. 105, 130, 187, 286), who was later arrested by the Inquisition with her mother Esperte Cervel (p. 218) [for the Cervel family tragedies see pp. 220, 221]; never a complete believer compared with his brother Pierre (pp. 125–6, 223); arrested by the Inquisition (p. 218); refused to be hereticated by Guillaume Bélibaste (p. 223).
(f) ARNAUD: joined brother Pierre in a team of shepherds working for Raymond Boursier of Puigcerda in 1310–11, then returned to Montaillou (p. 93).
(g) RAYMOND*: imprisoned for heresy (p. 248).
(i) GUILLEMETTE*: very unsatisfactorily married, at eighteen years of age, to Bertrand Piquier of Laroque d’Olmes, a carpenter (pp. 77, 91, 190); saved from her marriage by her brother Pierre (p. 49); after her rescue, Pierre entrusted her to the Bélibastes’ care, but soon afterwards she was taken prisoner by the Inquisition (p. 91).
(j) RAYMONDE: married Guillaume Marty [XIVd] (pp. 77,190).
Non-heretical domus (p. 29).
(a) BERNARD, married to (b) ALAZAIS; their five sons (c) JEAN, (d) RAYMOND, (e) GUILLAUME, (f) BERNARD and (g) PIERRE
(b) ALAZAIS: together with Brune Pourcel, prepared Na Roqua for her shroud, after her heretication (pp. 219–20).
(c) JEAN: shepherd from the age of twelve years (p. 73); worked for Bernard and Guillemette Maurs (pp. 41, 73); orthodox Christian believer (pp. 28, 29); momentary conversion to Catharism while in the Maurs household (p. 73); employed by Bernard Malet and his sons at Prades (p. 74); adopted Cathar beliefs because of his aunt Maura’s influence (p. 198).
(f) BERNARD: ploughboy, employed by Bernard and Guillemette Maurs and lived in their ostal, at the same time as his brother Jean (P. 41).
of Arques
(a) RAYMOND, married to (b) SYBILLE; their three daughters (c) BERNADETTE, (d) JACOTTE and (e) MARQUISE
(a) RAYMOND*: employed Pierre Maury as his shepherd (p. 79); substantial farmer and stock-breeder (p. 81); great friend of Raymond Maulen (first cousin of Pierre Maury, shepherd), and the two Raymonds together with Bernard Bélibaste set out to convert Pierre Maury to Catharism (p. 81,242); he respected the Authiés as wise men, but esteemed Prades Tavernier less highly, even though he had Prades hereticate his sick baby daughter Jacotte (d) (p. 239).
(b) SYBILLE: mother also lived in the ostal (p. 81); sheep-farmer (p. 78); quarrelled with husband over the heretication of Jacotte, otherwise their marriage was a very happy one (p. 188); friend and sympathizer of Pierre Authié (parfait) (p. 252).
(c) BERNADETTE: although only six years old, a marriage was proposed between her and Pierre Maury (shepherd) by Bernard Bélibaste (p. 79); slept in her mother’s bed (p. 214).
(d) JACOTTE: hereticated as an infant by Prades Tavernier (p. 211).
A heretical household (pp. 27, 28).
(a) BERNARD, married to (b) ALAZAIS; their son (c) PONS; their two daughters (d) RAYMONDE and (e) GUILLEMETTE
(a) BERNARD*: his domus housed the heretic’s chapel, which was linked by secret passage access to Guillaume Benet’s and Raymond Belot’s ostals (p. 41).
(b) ALAZAIS*: sister of Prades Tavernier (parfait) (p. 27), and thus the natural aunt of his bastard daughter Brune Pourcel (p. 8); terrorized by her son Pons (p. 34).
(c) PONS*: married to Fabrisse (née Clergue), the tavern-keeper of Montaillou (pp. 6, 34); acting head of the domus (p. 34); friend of the parfaits (p. 34); drove his wife out of the house (p. 34); his wife Fabrisse informed Pierre Clergue (priest) of Alazaïs Benet’s heretication (p. 65); Pons and Fabrisse had a daughter Grazide, whose virginity Fabrisse offered to the priest (p. 158); Fabrisse the natural daughter of Guillaume Clergue, brother of Pons Clergue, the patriarch (p. 158); the priest married Grazide off to Pierre Lizier, who left her a widow of twenty years of age (p. 159), though the priest remained her lover until about 1320 (p. 159).
(d) RAYMONDE: deloused her mother (p. 141); Arnaud Vital’s mistress (p. 46).
(e) GUILLEMETTE*: married Pierre Clergue (not the priest) [Xd] pp. 34, 192, 202); frightened of her husband (p. 192); friend of the heretics, but her husband was their enemy (p. 202).
(a) PRADES; his natural daughter (b) BRUNE POURCEL
(a) PRADES*: weaver of Prades (p. 6); heretic (parfait) regarding tithes and religion (p. 21); brother of Alazaïs Rives (p. 27); had a bastard daughter, Brune Pourcel (pp. 32, 41); became a parfait (pp. 41, 76); demanded worship from his daughter Brune Pourcel, according to the Cathar rite (p. 42); orthodox parfait regarding dietary matters (p. 86); hereticated Jacotte Pierre (p. 211); hereticated Esclarmonde Clergue [Xe] (p.227).
(b) BRUNE POURCEL: Alazaïs Rives her natural aunt (p. 8); assisted at Pons Clergue’s funeral (p. 31); the bastard daughter of Prades Tavernier (pp. 32, 41); worked for the Clergues (p. 42); riddled with superstition (pp. 42, 226); assisted at Na Roqua’s funeral (pp. 219–20).
Non-heretical household
(a) husband, name unknown, married to (b) ALAZAIS; their son (c) PRADES and daughter (d) RAYMONDE (VUISSANE)
(b) ALAZAIS: helped to re-convert her daughter back to Catholicism (pp. 198, 307).
(d) VUISSANE / RAYMONDE: real name Raymonde, was employed in the Belot household 1304–07 by Bernard Belot [VIIe], by whom she had two children, one of whom was called Bernard (p. 45); had no Cathar tendencies, which led Bernard Belot to reject her for marriage with Guillemette Benet (p. 46); victim of attempted rape by Arnaud Vital while both living in the Belot domus (p. 46); thereafter renounced whatever Cathar beliefs she had adopted (p. 150).
This couple may have been the ‘houseless heretics’ (p. 29), although they left the employ of the Belots and set up in their own domus, which prospered (PP. 39, 46–7).
(a) ARNAUD, married to (b) RAYMONDE; ARNAUD’s sister (c) RAYMONDE ARSEN (née VITAL)
(a) ARNAUD*: shoemaker of Montaillou (pp. 5–6); parish guardian of the harvests (p. 42); brother of Raymonde Arsen (p. 42), née Vital (p. 45); heretic, and acted as a mountain guide for the parfaits (pp. 46, 75); village Don Juan: lover of Alazaïs Fauré, Raymonde Rives and Alazaïs Gavela (p. 46); Bernard Belot was his first cousin and landlord for a time (p. 46); attempted to rape Vuissane (Raymonde Testanière) in the Belot domus (p. 46); the consequences of his death (p. 46); cousin of Bernard Vital who lived in Val d’Arques (p. 81).
(b) RAYMONDE: servant in the Belot house (p. 46), where she met Arnaud Vital (p. 46); very unhappily married to Arnaud (p. 46); when Arnaud died, married Bernard Guilhou (p. 46); later she became delouser to Mengarde Clergue and her son Pierre (priest) and temporarily his mistress (p. 46).
(c) RAYMONDE (née VITAL): sister of Arnaud Vital (p. 42); sentenced in 1324 to wear the double yellow cross because of her connections with the heretics (p. 42); first cousin of Raymond Belot (p. 42), who asked her to replace his sister, Raymonde Belot, who was leaving the family domus to marry Bernard Clergue (bayle), by working as a servant in the house (pp. 42–4); had an illegitimate daughter called Alazaïs (pp. 44, 175); after her term of employment with the Belots she married Prades den Arsen, taking his name (p. 45); employed by the Belots to wash their and the parfaits’ clothes (p. 143).