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Max Power said:"Kill them all. God will know his own."
-Pope Innocent III
Max, Max, Max. Shame on you.
Pope Innocent III didn't say that.
Arnaud Amaury, Abbot of Cîteaux, was appointed as military leader of the crusaders during the first stages of the war in 1209. This was a perfectly normal occurance at this time, but Arnaud's love of terror and killing was perhaps above average, even for a senior churchman. It was he who was responsible for the mass burning alive of "many heretics and many fair women" at Casseneuil", for the massacre at Béziers, where some 20,000 men, women and children were killed in an "exercise of christian charity", and for the immortal words "Kill them all. God will know his own". He was also responsible for the siege of Carcassonne, and for the shamefull siezure of Raymond-Roger Trencavel, Viscount of Carcassonne, Béziers, Albi and the Razès during a truce - leading to the fall of Carcassonne.
http://www.languedoc-france.info/120502_arnaud.htm