Guillaume de Puylaurens (in Occitan, Guilhèm de Puèglaurenç; in Latin, Guillelmus de Podio Laurenti; in English, William of Puylaurens) is a 13th-century Latin chronicler, author of a history of

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and of the

Albigensian Crusade The Albigensian Crusade (), also known as the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted pri ...

. He was born soon after 1200 at

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

, where he perhaps studied at the nascent

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and gained the title of "Master". He worked with

bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...

Foulques around 1228 to 1230. He was curé at

Puylaurens Puylaurens (; ) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. The poet Suzon de Terson was born here in 1657. Population See also *Communes of the Tarn department The following is a list of the 314 communes of the Tarn depa ...

( Tarn) from 1237 to 1240 (whence his name) and during this period was close to Foulques' successor as bishop, Raimond du Fauga. From 1244 onwards he was chaplain to

Raymond VII of Toulouse Raymond VII (July 1197 – 27 September 1249) was Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne and Marquis of Provence from 1222 until his death. Family and marriages Raymond was born at the Château de Beaucaire, the son of Raymond VI of Toulouse a ...

and was present at Raymond's death on September 27, 1249. He lived until 1274 at least, occasionally working for the

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. His work is entitled simply ''

Cronica The ''Nuova Cronica'' (also: ''Nova Cronica'') or ''New Chronicles'' is a 14th-century history of Florence created in a year-by-year linear format and written by the Italian banker and official Giovanni Villani (c. 1276 or 1280–1348). Th ...

'' (in English, "Chronicle").

Bibliography

* * Sibly, W.A., and Sibly, M.D., translators, ''The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens, The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath'', Boydell Press, 2003, ISBN 0 85115 925 7 {{Authority control 13th-century writers in Latin 13th-century French historians Inquisitors French male non-fiction writers