The Château de Montségur is a former fortress near Montségur, a commune in the Ariège department in southern France. Its ruins are the site of a razed stronghold of the Cathars. The present fortress on the site, though described as one of the "Cathar castles," is actually of a later period. It has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1862.
The ruins of Montségur are perched at a precarious 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) altitude in the south of France near the Pyrenees. Located in the heart of France's Languedoc-Occitanie regions, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Carcassonne, Montségur dominates a rock formation known as a pog — a term derived from the Languedocien dialect of Occitan — puòg or puèg, meaning "peak, hill, mountain." The top of the ruin is reached by a path and is 170m above the road.
In about 1204, Raymond de Péreille, one of the two lords of Montségur, the other being his cousin Pierre-Roger de Mirepoix, decided to rebuild the castle that had been in ruins for 40 years or more. Refortified, the castle became a center of Cathar activities, and home to Guilhabert de Castres, a Cathar theologian and bishop. In 1233 the site became "the seat and head" (domicilium et caput) of the Cathar church. It has been estimated that the fortified site housed about 500 people when in 1241, Raymond VII besieged Montsegur without success. The murder of representatives of the inquisition by about fifty men from Montsegur and faidits at Avignonet on May 28, 1242 was the trigger for the final military expedition to conquer the castle, the siege of Montségur.
In 1242 Hugues de Arcis led the military command of about 10,000 royal troops against the castle that was held by about 100 fighters and was home to 211 Perfects (who were pacifists and did not fight) and civilian refugees. The siege lasted nine months, until in March 1244, the castle finally surrendered. Approximately 220 Cathars were burned en masse in a bonfire at the foot of the pog when they refused to renounce their faith. Some 25 actually took the ultimate Cathar vow of consolamentum perfecti in the two weeks before the final surrender. Those who renounced the Cathar faith were allowed to leave and the castle itself was destroyed.
The present fortress ruin at Montségur is not from the Cathar era. The original Cathar fortress of Montségur was entirely pulled down by the victorious royal forces after its capture in 1244. It was gradually rebuilt and upgraded over the next three centuries by royal forces. The current ruin so dramatically occupying the site, and featured in illustrations, is referred to by French archeologists as "Montsegur III" and is typical of post-medieval royal French defensive architecture of the 17th century. It is not "Montsegur II," the structure in which the Cathars lived and were besieged, of which few traces remain today.
Montségur's solar alignment characteristics, visible on the morning of the summer solstice in particular, are part of what set this castle apart as an architectural wonder. This often mentioned solar phenomenon, occurring in an alignment of two windows in the fortress wall, has been observed by hundreds of students, astronomers, spiritual pilgrims and locals alike who come to the chateau specifically to view it every year and has been recorded and included in the documentary "The Otherworld," (by Richard Stanley) in 2013.
The castle has been manually recreated from various photos and videos from the internet. It comes with its own POI.
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Edd70
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PAPYDANIEL66
salut, travail superbe. Ok avec la v9. merci
YanSolo
Superbe travail, je ne m'en l'asse pas ! Félicitations
Lebebert34
Bonjour, penses-tu reactualiser les châteaux en V5 ?
mv46 author
Ce n’est pas un problème mais est-ce nécessaire? Vous avez rencontré un problème avec les mods?
3 years ago
Corsair09
Bravo pour votre travail. Habitant Mirepoix, je vole dans MSFS depuis l'aérodrome des Pujols (Pamiers). Un comble dans le simulateur, il n'y a pas de tour de contrôle. Peut être serez-vous tenté d'y remédier !!! Merci
OlivierQC
carucris
Un Très Grand Merci pour votre magnifique travail.
A faire en Hélico H135
pat64
balmax31
todorokipm
Premium
YanSolo
Hoping for other Cathar castles
Thanks again
alarl
j ai par ailleurs réalisé un PLN qui permet de faire une verticale de chacunes des citadelles mais sans elles le 1er est le bienvenue j'espère voir les les prochains .
Bon vol !
mv46 author
4 years ago
mikabu
charlie34000
We want more !!!
mv46 author
4 years ago