EVENTS AFTER THE SECOND SIEGE OF TOULOUSE AND PRINCE LOUIS'S SECOND SOJOURN IN THE SOUTH

The cardinal-legate and Amaury of Montfort sent earnest entreaties to Pope Honorius and Philip Augustus via the bishops of Toulouse, Tarbes, and Comminges, and to Amaury's mother Alice. The pope did his best to help in spite of the fact that the military phase of the Fifth Crusade was well underway. Burdened as he was with this large undertaking to Outremer, Pope Honorius showed a generosity and sympathy to the Albigensian Crusade lacking in his predecessor. Upon hearing of Simon of Montfort's death Honorius issued a series of letters concerning events in Occitania. On 30 July he issued a bull granting a full indulgence for all those who crusaded in the south just like the crusaders received for their efforts before Damietta. As usual there were no specific requirements for earning this indulgence, so it appears that it was granted by the same specifications as for earlier recruiting calls, the forty-day period. A few weeks later on 12 August the pope wrote a letter to Philip Augustus, mentioning the indulgence again and urging the king to send Prince Louis south to aid Amaury of Montfort. The pope followed this up by sending a letter on 13 August to Louis himself asking the same thing. Amaury of Montfort was confirmed in his properties and titles in another letter on 17 August.