Troubadours ( Trobadors):   Extracts from the Song of the Crusade

The Song of the Crusade, (La Chanson de la Croisade) is an Occitan poem dealing with the first part of the Catholic crusader wars against the people of the Languedoc in the thirteenth century. It is also, more accurately, referred to as the Song of the Cathar Wars.

For information about the poem visit a page specifically on the Song of the Cathar Wars

For extracts from the Song of the Cathar Wars in the original Occitan along with a translation in English, visit pages on

• the siege of Béziers
• The death and epitaph of Simon de Montfort
• the siege of Marmande
• the siege of Lavaur