ARNAUD AMAURI
Arnaud Amauri was the abbot of Poblet, chosen by the Pope to guide the Crusade against the Albigensians, alongside Simon de Monfort, who was the military leader.

« En l’orde de Cistel una abaya ot
que fo pres de Laire, qu’om Poblet apelot ;
e si i a un bon home qui abas en estot


………………………………………Fo abas de Cistels, per so car Dieu l’amot.
Aicest santimes hom ab los autres alot
Per terra del heretges, et els les predicot. »


(There was an abbey belonging to CiteauxNear Leira, called Poblet,Its abbot being a good man, of great merit.
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For the love of God he was head of CiteauxAnd this saintly man together with othersWent into the land of the heretics and trainedThem well.)

GUILLAUME DE TUDÈLE, The song of the Crusade