Battle of Low wall
See also: Low wall (homonymy)
The battles of Muret took place the September 12th 1213 in the plain to 25 km in the south of Toulouse within the framework of the Albigensian Crusade between the troops of the count Raymond VI of Toulouse and its allies occitans like Raymond-Roger de Foix with his brother-in-law Pierre II of Aragon, count of Barcelona opposed to the Ost of the knights of the north of the France under the orders of Simon IV of Montfort on behalf of the Pope Innocent III.
Precondition
August 30th, 1213, the king of Aragon Pierre II begins the seat of the small castle of Low wall where 30 knights are held. Simon IV of Montfort is then with Fanjeaux; it raises a troop of 1000 riders and arrives the battle day before at Muret. In same time, the counts of Toulouse, of Comminges and Foix, follow-up of the militia Toulouse rejoin the camp of king d' Aragon. This last has a broad numerical superiority.
Battle
The count de Foix attacks the city by the Saint-Germier door, but it runs up against barricades drawn up by Muretains and their consuls during the night. The streets are narrow, the trapped riders have great difficulty to turn back, much fall.
During this time, Montfort with the head of the Crusaders, leaves by the street the market, crosses the door of Rooms, in the south of the city and fact mines to flee by the bridge of the Garonne; but an abrupt volte-face brings back it to the west towards the Louge which it crosses to take with reverse the first body Toulouse militia, which, surprised, disperse in disorder.
The north of Low wall Pierre awaits the load of the crusaders. The king tired by one night agitated, said the legend, cannot only go up on his horse. Indiscipline reigns in its camp It exchanged its armor with one of its knights who is suddenly encircled by Alain de Roucy and Florent de Ville. Its horse is put at bottom, and it is immediately bored blows. But the crusaders discover trickery, and claim the king! Pierre II, lost by his honor and his pride, is discovered then. Encircled, at the end of a fierce combat, it is killed as well as the Aragonese knights who try to recover his body. The news of its death is spread like a powder trail, and accentuates the rout of the Catalan troops, then the southernmost infantrymen drown while trying to cross the Garonne to the stroke.
The losses of those of the South are of 15.000 with 20 000 men.
The son of Pierre II, Jacques, six years old, is made prisoner; Simon de Monfort the met under the guard of Pierre Nolasque then sends them both in Spain.
Consequences
This defeat and the death of Pierre II puts an end to inclinations of intervention of the catalano-Aragonese crown against the crusade. The counts de Foix and of Comminges set out again on their grounds. The count of Toulouse leaves for England to meet Jean Without Ground and leaves with the consuls of Toulouse the care to negotiate with the chiefs of the crusade.
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