Identifier: foxeschristianma00fox (find matches)
Title: Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Subjects: Martyrs Persecution Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., C. Foster publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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made another assault, and was againdriven back with greater loss than before. To complete his misfortunes, before the tfesiegers could recoverfrom their confusion, the count of Foix appeared at the head of aformidable body of troops, and attacking Simons already dispiritedsoldiers, easily put them to rout. The count himself narrowly es-caped drowning in the river Garonne, into which he hastily plungedto avoid being captured. Death of Count Simon of Montfort.This last disaster almost broke the counts spirit; but the popeslegate continued to encourage him, and offered to raise another army,which with some difficulty, and three years delay, he finally did, andthe count was once more able to take the field. On this occasion heturned his whole force against Toulouse, which he besieged for thespace of nine months. In one of the sorties made by the Albigenses,count Simons horse was wounded. The animal being in great painran away with him, and carried him directly under the battlement walls,
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DEATH OP COUNT SIMON OP MONTFORT. 202 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. which were swarming with his foes. A crossbowman, taking advan-tage of this unlooked-for opportunity, shot a bolt into his thigh. But it was, after all, by the hand of a woman, that the Albigenses,like the Israelites of old, were delivered from their great enemy; forthe wife of one of the soldiers, seeing Simon beneath her, seized aheavy stone and dropped it upon the head of the already woundedcount, striking him from his horse and leaving him dead upon theground. Failure of Attempts to Take Toulouse. The death of count Simon so discouraged the soldiers that theygave up the siege and went home. But the legate, determined notto be disappointed of his prey, interested the king of France in thecause, who sent his son to attack Toulouse. The French prince,with some chosen troops, made a furious assault; but the brave de-fenders who had succeeded before in beating off the fierce countSimon, won another victory, and the bes

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