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 | | century, in part due to a combination of their own novelty, powerful converts like Roger Trencavel II, Raymond-Roger of Foix and Raymond of Toulouse—descendant of the Raymond of Toulouse who had been the first over the wall during the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099—, and the particular political and social conditions of the time. |
 | | Yet Domingo de Guzmn, the later St. Dominic who would establish the Dominican order, admitted in his letters that not only had he failed to make much headway preaching in Languedoc, but that the pretty young Cathar maids had often had more of an impression on him than he’d had on them. |
 | | For example, Languedoc was prized by the Capetian kings of France, the Angevin kings of the Plantagenet dynasty, and even the ambitious Aragonese crown from its role as the County of Barcelona. |
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