“Everyone has heard of the Troubadours, but it is not generally realized that they were heretics und

“Everyone has heard of the Troubadours, but it is not generally realized that they were heretics under the ban of the church and driven hither and thither by that relentless antagonist. Their mission, Aroux tells us, was to redress the wrongs of Rome, to take up the defence of the weak and oppressed. They were also represented and celebrated as the true soldiers of Christ, the exponents of celestial chivalry, and the champions of the poor, attacking under all their forms the monstrous abuses of the Priesthood. It is said that great numbers of the higher classes became Troubadours, wandering from Court to Court and castle to castle, spreading the doctrine of the organisation for which they were acting as emissaries”.Harold Bayley -- source link

More pics about