Don Pedro II., king of Aragon, had strongly supported before Innocent III.

the claims of the Count of Toulouse and of the southern princes his allies.

"He cajoled the lord pope," says the prejudiced chronicler of these events, the monk Peter of Vaulx-Cernay, "so far as to persuade him that the cause of the faith was achieved against the heretics, they being put to distant flight and completely driven from the Albigensian country, and that accordingly it was necessary for him to revoke altogether the indulgence be had granted to the crusaders.

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