Castres-en-Albigenses was a dependence of the Viscount of Albi. The Viscounts of Albi granted Castres a city charter establishing a commune with the city, headed by consuls. During the Albigensian Crusade, the city quickly surrendered to Simon de Montfort, who gave it to his brother Guy de Montfort.
Lords of Castres
House of Montfort-l'Amaury
1211-1228 : Guy de Montfort († 1228), Lord of Ferté-Allais et de Bréthecourt, son Simon III de Montfort, Lord of Montfort and d'Amicie de Beaumont.[1]
First marriage in 1204 to Helvis d'Ibelin († avant 1216)
Second marriage in 1224 to Briende de Beynes
1228-1240 : Philip I of Montfort († 1270), Lord of Castres, and later Lord of Tyre and Toron, son of Guy de Montfort and d'Helvis d'Ibelin.[2]
1438-1462 : Bernard de Pardiac|Bernard d'Armagnac († 1462), Count of Pardiac, of La Marche, Castres and Duke of Nemours.
Married in 1429 to Éléonore de Bourbon, daughter of James II and Béatrice d'Évreux.
1462-1476 : Jacques d'Armagnac (1433 † 1477), Count of Pardiac, La Marche and Duke of Nemours.
Married in 1462 to Louise d'Anjou (1445 † 1477).
In 1476, Jacques d'Armagnac is tried for treason and his property confiscated by Louis XI. He bestows the county of Castres to one of his officers, Boffille de Juge.
From 1502 to 1519, possession of Castres is challenged by the daughter of Boffille de Juge. Finally, in 1519, irritated by the argument, Francis I of France reunites the county of Castres to the royal domain.
Notes
^Dictionnaire de la noblesse, 2nd Ed, Editor: François Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye Desbois, (1772), 32.
^Crowe, Eyre Evans, The History of France, (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858), 212.
^Cuttler, S.H., The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France, (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 111.
References
Crowe, Eyre Evans, The History of France, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858.
Cuttler, S.H., The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Dictionnaire de la noblesse, 2nd Ed, Editor: François Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye Desbois, 1772.