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and then

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in the Comté de Foix in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. Tavernier was originally from

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, and he was named after the town. There he became a successful and prosperous weaver. Though unmarried, he had a bastard daughter named Brune Pourcel. Tired of weaving Tavernier decided to become a Cathar Perfect and traveled the region preaching and performing Cathar rites. In his travels he spent much of his time in the town of Montaillou, which was a centre of Catharism. Unlike most parfait Tavernier did not come from the

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and he was not well grounded in Cathar theology. He thus broke a number of rules, such as performing the consolamentum on an

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References

* Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. ''Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error.'' translated by

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. New York: G. Braziller, c1978. * The Yellow Cross – the story of the last cathars 1290–1329. René Weis. Penguin Viking 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavernier, Prades 13th-century French people 14th-century French people Catharism History of Catholicism in France People from Montaillou