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The ceiling was painted when a certain Arnaud Amalric was archbishop of Narbonne, a man more famous for the role he played in the bloody Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars in the Midi than for the beauty of the buildings he commissioned.
It was this archbishop who ordered the infamous massacre at Béziers, and which, he admitted in a letter to Pope Innocent III in 1209, resulted in the slaughter of nearly 20,000 people.
Yet Amalric was clearly just as fired up by making a palace fit for a prince (of the Church) as he was by overseeing the extermination of heretics in the name of God.
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This is kind of cool. It's a shame that in the '50s they saw fit to add personal touches to 56 tiles.
Amalric sounds familiar and I may have read about him as a side note in something else but I would like to go learn about him more.
It was this archbishop who ordered the infamous massacre at Béziers, and which, he admitted in a letter to Pope Innocent III in 1209, resulted in the slaughter of nearly 20,000 people.
Yet Amalric was clearly just as fired up by making a palace fit for a prince (of the Church) as he was by overseeing the extermination of heretics in the name of God.
Find medieval knights and monsters painted on Narbonne palace ceiling
We tell you where to look for 13th-century images of gruesome violence and imaginary creatures in the corners of this holy place
This is kind of cool. It's a shame that in the '50s they saw fit to add personal touches to 56 tiles.
Amalric sounds familiar and I may have read about him as a side note in something else but I would like to go learn about him more.
