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Denier - Aimery III with archbishop Arnaud Amalric
| Issuer | Viscounty of Narbonne |
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| Year | 1212-1225 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a bold patriarchal or processional cross with an ornamental petal or lozenge motif in one of its quarters, a distinctive feature of this emission. The cross is contained within a plain inner circle, beyond which runs the uncial Latin marginal legend AMALRICVS, referencing Archbishop Arnaud Amalric. The flan is irregular and struck with variable pressure, resulting in uneven legend rendering consistent with feudal hammered coinage of the early thirteenth century. |
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Arnaud Amalric is better remembered as the papal legate who allegedly ordered the massacre at Béziers in 1209 — "Kill them all, God will know his own" — though the attribution is disputed and appears only in a chronicle written decades later. His simultaneous roles as Archbishop of Narbonne and legate of the Albigensian Crusade placed him in direct conflict with Aimery III, who resisted crusader encroachment on his viscounty. This coin's joint attribution reflects a period of uneasy coexistence between the two powers rather than any genuine political partnership.