to reconstitute strict feudal obligations between Simon and his vassals; to apply to all
persons the testamentary practices of the custom of Paris (usus Francie circa Parisius),
which favored the eldest heir and eliminated the southern custom of joint succession or
equal division, especially of noble fiefs upon whose service Simon relied. The Statutes of
Pamiers, particularly their most radical provisions transplanting into the Midi elements of
northern customary law, did not survive the Montforts. Except for the obligations of
certain noble families, they were abandoned by Louis IX and Alphonse of Poitiers.
Alan Friedlander
[See also: ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE; MONTFORT]
Bisson, Thomas N. Assemblies and Representation in Languedoc in the Thirteenth Century.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
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d’Albigeois. Toulouse: Privat, 1950.
Vaux-de-Cernay, Pierre des. Historia Albigensis, trans. Pascal Guébin and Henri Maisonneuve.
Paris: Vrin, 1951, pp. 141–44.
Vic, Claude de, and Joseph Vaissète. Histoire générale de Lan-guedoc. 16 vols. Toulouse: Privat,
1872–1904, Vol. 8, cols. 623–35. [Text of statutes.]
PARAY-LE-MONIAL
. Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire) is a Romanesque priory belonging to Cluny III, the
mother church of the Cluniac order, and located some 13 miles west of Cluny. The design
of Paray-le-Monial is based directly on that of Cluny III, yet the sizes are vastly different:
Cluny was originally 609 feet long and 97 feet high, with nave, four aisles, two aisleless
transepts, choir, and five chapels radiating from an ambulatory, while Paray-le-Monial is
206 feet long and 71 feet high, with nave, two aisles, one aisleless transept, and three
radiating chapels.
Paray-le-Monial, abbey church, plan,
early 12th century. After Losowska.
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