During the Albigensian Crusade in 1209, a French army under the guidance of Pope Innocent III took the town of Beziers near the Mediterranean coast. When the town was sacked, a question arose over how its upstanding Christian inhabitants might be distinguished from the damned heretics. Fortunately Simon de Montfort had a solution. "Kill them all," he ordered. "The Lord will know his own."
Consequently, tens of thousands of men, women, and children were indiscriminately slaughtered.
(Source: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts)
Simon de Fontfort was killed during his later seige of Toulouse when he was hit in the head by a stone allegedly catapulted by the women of the city.
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