After the siege of La Becede, Gerard de la Motta and the other Perfects were burned. Humbert de Beaujeu then turned his attention to Toulouse. For the fourth time in fifteen years, its suburbs were destroyed and its vines pulled up. By then, the people of Languedoc were tired of war, and in 1229 Lord Raymond of Toulouse made peace with the French King. In return, he was allowed to remain Count of Toulouse. His only child, Joan, was betrothed to the King’s nine-year-old brother, and Raymond agreed that all his dominions were to pass to their children when he died.
Pons de Villeneuve, who survived the siege of La Becede, was Count Raymond’s first post-war Seneschal of Toulouse. Pagan de La Becede, who also survived, became a faidit (or exile) and a leader of the remaining, defiant heretics until he was captured and burned in 1233. In November 1228, Olivier de Termes and his brother made their submission to the King of France. At the same time Olivier converted to Catholicism, and remained a Catholic for the rest of his life.
Bernard Oth also had a change of heart. When royal troops attacked Cabaret in 1228, he defended the fortress for a month, and made sure that the two Perfects who had been living there were escorted to safety before he finally surrendered. In 1232, Bernard, his son and two of Bernard’s brothers attacked the lands of the Archbishop of Narbonne, burning buildings, driving off cattle and wounding the Archbishop. Bernard and most of his family—including his mother— were finally condemned as heretics by the newly established Holy Inquisition.
The last Cathar fortress, Montsegur, fell in 1244. Raymond of Toulouse died in 1249, leaving no male heir. His daughter and son-in-law both died, childless, in 1271.
And Languedoc became a permanent part of the French King’s dominion.